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TEHRAN (IQNA) – A conference on studies featuring the uprising of Imam Hussein (AS) will be held in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, in November.
News ID: 3461109    Publish Date : 2016/10/06

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A senior Palestinian official described an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the case of Israeli abuses and war crimes during its 50-day aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip back in 2014 as a “serious test” for the Hague-based tribunal.
News ID: 3461107    Publish Date : 2016/10/07

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said she was troubled by anti-Muslim posters that appeared on the University of Calgary’s campus on Tuesday morning.
News ID: 3461101    Publish Date : 2016/10/06

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Berlin branch of the Anglican Church plans to host a program about elegy recitations in mourning of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS).
News ID: 3461094    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – “Think not of those who are slain in God’s way as dead. Nay, they are living, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord.” (Quran 3:169) Indeed, this verse of the Holy Quran explains that martyrdom on the path of God is not equivalent to death, for the body may perish but the soul is immortal.
News ID: 3461093    Publish Date : 2016/10/11

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s cultural attaché in Tanzania described the Muslim Students International Quran Competition as a gathering of the Muslim world’s future-builders.
News ID: 3461092    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Serbia's President Tomislav Nikolic said Monday that the election of a Bosnian Serb mayor in Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslims were massacred by Serbs, would not mean Belgrade would forget the wartime "crime".
News ID: 3461091    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A court in Bahrain has turned down a request to grant freedom to distinguished Shia cleric Sheikh Ali Salman.
News ID: 3461090    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Cities and town across Iran are draped in black mourning cloth and flags in the lunar month of Muharram as Muslims mourn the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions in the 680 A.D. Battle of Karbala.
News ID: 3461088    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A joint meeting of religious thinkers from Iran and Croatia is planned to be held in Tehran today, October 4.
News ID: 3461087    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has organized a workshop on “The role of women in the development of OIC member states”, in collaboration with the Statistical, Economic, Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), a subsidiary organ of OIC, on October 3-4 at SESRIC headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.
News ID: 3461086    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Winners of the 4th Timsa annual Quran memorization competition were awarded in a ceremony in the Omani city of Nizwa.
News ID: 3461085    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) will jointly hold the 4th International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, early next spring 2017.
News ID: 3461084    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani was hosted by Hakim Nasir Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center Monday evening to visit the world’s largest Holy Quran created by an Afghan calligrapher with his team.
News ID: 3461083    Publish Date : 2016/10/04

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A veteran ally of Angela Merkel urged Muslims in Germany on Sunday to develop a "German Islam" based on liberalism and tolerance, saying the influx of people seeking refuge, many of them Muslims, is a challenge for mainstream society.
News ID: 3461080    Publish Date : 2016/10/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Iranian cultural center in Zimbabwe is organizing an interfaith dialogue conference in the African country later this month.
News ID: 3461079    Publish Date : 2016/10/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The red flags of the two holy shrines in Karbala, Iraq, were changed as a symbol of the start of the lunar Hijri month of Muharram.
News ID: 3461078    Publish Date : 2016/10/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Daesh’s ringleader, Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has reportedly been poisoned together with three other commanders of the Takfiri terrorist group.
News ID: 3461077    Publish Date : 2016/10/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Secretary General of Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said the resistance against Takfiri terrorists has been inspired by Imam Hussein (AS) uprising in Ashura.
News ID: 3461076    Publish Date : 2016/10/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis visited a mosque in overwhelmingly Muslim Azerbaijan on Sunday and told leaders of all faiths that God should never be used to justify fundamentalism.
News ID: 3461075    Publish Date : 2016/10/03