TEHRAN (IQNA) – In a milestone for professional basketball, the long-standing ban on player headgear, including the hijab, turbans and yarmulkes, has been officially lifted.
News ID: 3464060 Publish Date : 2017/10/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Shortly after 9/11, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills was speaking with several academics when someone asked who among them had read the Quran. The answer: No one.
News ID: 3464059 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A group of Quran memorizers of the Dar-ol-Quran of Imam Hussein’s (AS) holy shrine held a mourning procession in Karbala on the Day of Ashura.
News ID: 3464058 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Thousands of Shia Muslims across Australia marched to commemorate the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammad's (PBUH) grandson, Imam Hussein (AS), and take a stand against terrorism.
News ID: 3464057 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Some three million pilgrims from Iraq and other countries took part in mourning ceremonies held in the holy city of Karbala on Sunday, the day of Ashura.
News ID: 3464056 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A senior Iranian lawmaker lauded Iraqi Shia source of emulation grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s stance against a recently held independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdish region.
News ID: 3464055 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A two-term Cambridge, Massachusetts, city councilor and founder of an activist group that trains Muslim-Americans to run for office launched a campaign for US Congress on Sunday that could make him the third Muslim in the chamber.
News ID: 3464054 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Philippine lawmakers approved a bill declaring the first day of February as an annual National Hijab Day.
News ID: 3464053 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Mourning ceremonies were held in cities and towns across Iran, including the holy city of Mashhad, on Sunday to mark Ashura, the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions.
News ID: 3464052 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bahraini regime forces attacked dozens of Shia Muslims commemorating the occasion of Ashura, which marks the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia Imam, as the Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown against peaceful protesters.
News ID: 3464051 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Tehran-based Noor-ol-Hoda choir has performed Quranic and religious songs during a trip to Finland.
News ID: 3464050 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Lebanese Shia Muslims on Sunday marched in streets in a Beirut suburb to mark Ashura.
News ID: 3464049 Publish Date : 2017/10/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Palmerston North, a city in the North Island of New Zealand, hosted a peaceful protest asking for an end to the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim people.
News ID: 3464048 Publish Date : 2017/10/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pakistani National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq urged the nation to rise above parochial differences, narrow mindedness, sectarianism, ethnicity and maintain harmony, unity and brotherhood in the ranks in accordance with golden principles of Islam and follow the path of Imam Hussein (AS).
News ID: 3464047 Publish Date : 2017/10/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A teenage boy is fighting for his life after being stabbed outside a mosque in Britain Saturday morning.
News ID: 3464046 Publish Date : 2017/10/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah underlined that the resistance movement is in its strongest position.
News ID: 3464045 Publish Date : 2017/10/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims, especially Shias, around the world on Sunday staged mourning ceremonies in commemoration of Ashura.
News ID: 3464044 Publish Date : 2017/10/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The first Al-Quran Studio offering Al-Quran classes for children between the age of eight and 11 and using the latest audiovisual technology was launched in Malaysia Saturday.
News ID: 3464043 Publish Date : 2017/09/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia successfully lobbied against the establishment of a commission of inquiry into allegations of human rights violations in Yemen, where Riyadh’s war machine has been breathing fire during the past two-and-a-half years.
News ID: 3464042 Publish Date : 2017/09/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Campaigners have launched a crowdfunding bid to hold Myanmar's leaders accountable under international law for the Rohingya Muslim crisis.
News ID: 3464041 Publish Date : 2017/09/30
