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TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Qari from the Philippines visited the grave of late Iranian Quran reciter Hassan Danesh in the central city of Yazd.
News ID: 3462741    Publish Date : 2017/05/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 30th edition of Tehran International Book Fair got underway in a ceremony here in the Iranian capital on Tuesday.
News ID: 3462740    Publish Date : 2017/05/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The executive board of the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday passed a resolution describing the city of Quds (Jerusalem) as “occupied”.
News ID: 3462739    Publish Date : 2017/05/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A rare page from the only two known Kufic Quran copies fetched half a million dollars at British auction house Christie’s.
News ID: 3462738    Publish Date : 2017/05/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pakistan’s Ulema (scholars) of major Islamic schools of thought agreed to bring out consensus-based text translation of the Holy Quran for teaching in schools.
News ID: 3462737    Publish Date : 2017/05/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Turkish-Dutch organization, Milli Gonus, took part in an international campaign called ‘Hello, We Are Muslims’, aimed at getting in touch with people across Europe, and handing out white roses to passersby.
News ID: 3462736    Publish Date : 2017/05/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Japanese logistics giant Nippon Express is entering the emerging Asian Islamic market by providing a halal food logistics service in anticipation of greater demand in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
News ID: 3462735    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The seventh Quran competition for academics in Lebanon began on Monday.
News ID: 3462734    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Muslim mum is challenging women across the UK to try on the ‘hijab’ headscarf - so they can see what it is like to be excluded from society or even abused.
News ID: 3462733    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two Emirati institutes signed an agreement to publish a new translation of the Holy Quran in French.
News ID: 3462732    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muhammad Irfan Afandi, a blind Qari from Indonesia, described Iran’s international competition for the visually-impaired as an opportunity for burgeoning of the Quranic talents of the visually-impaired.
News ID: 3462731    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas Khaled Meshaal said the group accepts the establishment of an independent Palestinian state along the 1967 borders but without recognizing Israel.
News ID: 3462729    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sweden’s largest Shia Muslim mosque was badly damaged overnight in a suspected arson attack, police said Monday, adding later that they had made one arrest in connection with the incident.
News ID: 3462728    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 25th edition of the Tehran International Holy Quran Exhibition will get underway in Tehran on the first day of Ramadan, an official said.
News ID: 3462727    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Quranic Encyclopedia of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) compiled in 60 volumes was unveiled by the Astan (custodianship) of Imam Hussein’s (AS) holy shrine in Karbala, Iraq.
News ID: 3462726    Publish Date : 2017/05/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A group of Israeli settlers blocked the main highway between the occupied West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus on Sunday afternoon under Israeli police and military protection, locals said.
News ID: 3462722    Publish Date : 2017/05/01

TEHRAN (IQNA) – There are several invaluable handwritten copies of Islam’s Holy Book in Russia, some of them dating back to the 7th century AD.
News ID: 3462721    Publish Date : 2017/05/01

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A mob in India beat to death two Muslims who were accused of trying to steal cows for slaughter, police said on Monday, the latest incident in a surge of violence blamed on hardline Hindu groups.
News ID: 3462720    Publish Date : 2017/05/01

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Despite the foreign-backed militancy and the crisis that has gripped Syria for years, Quranic activities continue in the Arab country’s government-held areas.
News ID: 3462719    Publish Date : 2017/05/01

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR Oklahoma) has launched #TheMuslimNextDoor campaign as a way to challenge Islamophobia by providing a platform for American Muslims to tell their stories.
News ID: 3462717    Publish Date : 2017/05/01