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TEHRAN (IQNA) – France condemned Israel for razing several French-funded buildings in the occupied West Bank, warning the regime against destroying structures funded by the European Union (EU) member states.
News ID: 3460669    Publish Date : 2016/08/12

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Senior Nigerian Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky’s health has been worsening, Shia Rights Watch (SRW) said.
News ID: 3460668    Publish Date : 2016/08/12

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the city of Chicago and six of its police officers after she said the officers profiled her based on her religious garb and assaulted her outside a CTA train station last year.
News ID: 3460667    Publish Date : 2016/08/12

TEHRAN (IQNA) – They face a "triple penalty" of being a woman, of an ethnic minority and being Muslim
News ID: 3460666    Publish Date : 2016/08/11

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Leaders of the Masjid al-Sahaabah mosque in Watauga, Tex., have grown accustomed to receiving several threatening voice mails on their answering machine each week.
News ID: 3460665    Publish Date : 2016/08/11

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A number of Quran teachers suspected of having connections with Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric and an outspoken opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have been sacked in Turkey’s Ordu province.
News ID: 3460662    Publish Date : 2016/08/11

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Nigerian group named “Access to Justice (A2J)” has called on the country’s Kaduna State Government to begin the prosecution of all the military officers indicted by the Justice Garba Judicial Panel report as it is doing with members of Shia movement.
News ID: 3460660    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims in the Philippines have expressed deep concern over reports of a pledge made by a provincial town mayor to force thousands of Muslim residents out of the settlement, as part of his campaign to counter drug trafficking.
News ID: 3460659    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Quranic institute of the Astan (custodianship) of Hazrat Abbas (AS) held a Quranic course for the Muslim community in Birmingham, England.
News ID: 3460658    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A delegation led by Iraq’s ambassador to Iran held a meeting with Iranian officials at the Interior Ministry here in Tehran on Tuesday to discussed preparations for the upcoming Arbaeen ceremony.
News ID: 3460657    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A special program is planned to be held in the city of Merv in Turkmenistan this weekend on the occasion of Imam Reza (AS) birth anniversary.
News ID: 3460656    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bahrain’s security forces arrested six more Shia clerics for their protest against a recent revocation of Shia leader Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassem’s citizenship.
News ID: 3460655    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Switzerland-based International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to permanently lift the ban on Muslim women athletes wearing Islamic head scarves (hijab) when it issues a final decision on its head-covering policy later this month.
News ID: 3460654    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention has linked arms with Muslim and Jewish leaders to call for the California State Assembly to block a proposed legislation that they say “disadvantages low-income minority students who want an education at private religious colleges.”
News ID: 3460653    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A national Quran competition is being held by Palestinian Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Ministry in the Gaza Strip.
News ID: 3460652    Publish Date : 2016/08/10

TEHRAN (IQNA) – In a move to counter anti-Muslim sentiment, the California Assembly has designated August as Muslim appreciation and awareness month.
News ID: 3460649    Publish Date : 2016/08/09

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The family of a 14-year-old who was arrested in September for bringing a homemade clock to his Texas high school and then charged with having a "hoax bomb" has filed a federal lawsuit against school officials for violating his civil rights.
News ID: 3460646    Publish Date : 2016/08/09

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Head of the Dar-ol-Quran Center of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said an international Quran competition for member states of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is planned to be held in the near future.
News ID: 3460645    Publish Date : 2016/08/09

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A mobile exhibition in Canada that aims to stop Islamophobia has arrived in Saskatchewan.
News ID: 3460643    Publish Date : 2016/08/09

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Saudi regime’s warplanes have destroyed one more Muslim place of worship in Yemen, reports said.
News ID: 3460642    Publish Date : 2016/08/09