TEHRAN (IQNA) – Millions of Shia pilgrims converged on Iraq’s holy city of Karbala in the past few days to mark Arbaeen, commemorating the end of a 40-day mourning period after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS).
News ID: 3461507 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday expressed concern over a report that a 16-year-old Muslim boxer from Minnesota was barred from a match in Florida because she wears an Islamic head scarf, or hijab.
News ID: 3461506 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Director of Iranian Seminaries’ Quran and Etrat Department said planning is underway for holding the first international Quran competition for Islamic seminary students.
News ID: 3461505 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – All members of a family in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, are memorizers of the entire Quran.
News ID: 3461504 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Security sources in Iraq’s Erbil governorate said an imam (prayer leader) has been assassinated in the city of Erbil.
News ID: 3461503 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The mayor of New York City has promised he will sue the US government if Muslims are required under a Donald Trump administration to sign up to a “registry”.
News ID: 3461502 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Police in Evanston, US state of Illinois, are investigating a report of defaced copies of the Quran and other books about the Quran at Evanston Public Library, officials said Tuesday.
News ID: 3461500 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran underlined the role of religions in creating and promoting peace in the world.
News ID: 3461499 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Azerbaijani painter and decorative artist Tunzale Memmedzade has transcribed the Quran onto transparent silver pages.
News ID: 3461497 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the so-called international coalition led by the United States and formed allegedly to fight the Daesh terrorist group has not been successful.
News ID: 3461495 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As part of the Festival of India in Oman, the Indian embassy is organizing an exhibition of Islamic calligraphy in Muscat.
News ID: 3461491 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Are you one of those people who rarely touches the Quran? Or do you read daily, but don’t find it is having the impact on you that it should? Whatever the case may be, these are some simple tips that can help you connect with the Quran.
News ID: 3461490 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Every year on the 20th day of the month of Safar in the lunar Hijri calendar millions of pilgrims march toward the holy city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen.
News ID: 3461489 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a terrorist attack on a crowded Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, stressing that sponsors of terrorism will be engulfed by the backlash of their actions “sooner or later.”
News ID: 3461488 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Known as the "Master of Calligraphers," Sheikh Hamdullah took the art of Islamic calligraphy to its peak.
News ID: 3461487 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A rising number of five-star hotels in Seoul, South Korea are offering halal foods in their restaurants to attract Muslim guests, a small but growing market, industry officials said on Monday.
News ID: 3461486 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Human Rights Watch group says high-definition satellite images show 820 newly identified structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya Muslim villages in the Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state.
News ID: 3461481 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Members of Boise's Muslim community gathered Sunday morning for an annual march of peace, honoring the life of an historic Islamic leader.
News ID: 3461480 Publish Date : 2016/11/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Sahifeh Sajjadiyeh was translated into the Kurdish language and published in Erzurum, Turkey.
News ID: 3461479 Publish Date : 2016/11/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The World Health Organization has rejected as false a report on the increased number of unintended pregnancies in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala during Arbaeen mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
News ID: 3461478 Publish Date : 2016/11/21
