Shia Muslims

Bahrainis resume Friday Prayer after 4-week suspension

Jul 15, 2016 15:38

Bahrainis have held congregational prayers in the tiny Persian Gulf country nearly a month after clergymen declared a pause to the religious ritual in protest at the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime's heavy-handed crackdown.
Saudi regime detains prominent religious scholar

Jul 12, 2016 12:33

Saudi Arabia has arrested a senior religious scholar as the kingdom continues to impose more restrictions on religious activities of people in its oil-rich east.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah condemns terror attack on Iraq Shia shrine

Jul 08, 2016 14:03

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has strongly condemned the recent bombing and shooting attacks by Takfiri Daesh terrorists on a sacred shrine in Iraq’s northern province of Salahuddin.
Bahrain cuts internet connections, cellular coverage in cleric’s village

Jul 06, 2016 03:52

Aal-e Khalifa forces have disabled internet connections and cellular coverage at the native village of the Bahrain's prominent religious scholar, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim whom the Manama regime last month stripped of his citizenship.
Three bomb attacks hit near mosque in Qatif, security hq. in Medina

Jul 04, 2016 15:23

Two bomb blasts have hit near a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Qatif while a third bomb has gone off close to a security headquarters at Prophet's Mosque in the western city of Medina.
Death toll from dawn blasts in Iraq capital exceeds 90

Jul 03, 2016 10:08

The death toll from two bombings in a Shia Muslim neighborhood in Baghdad at dawn Sunday jumps to 91, Iraqi security and health officials say.
Grand Ayatollah Sistani hails Ayatollah Qassim's peaceful efforts in Bahrain

Jun 23, 2016 09:41

Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Sistani has praised efforts by Bahrain's prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahamed Qassim in defending people’s rights through peaceful means.
Bahrain ‘provocations’ to impact ties with US, UK: HRW

Jun 23, 2016 00:41

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Manama regime should reverse its "arbitrary decision" to revoke the citizenship of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim.
Infringement on Bahrainis’ rights unacceptable: Zarif

Jun 22, 2016 12:09

In the wake of a recent move by the Manama regime to strip Bahrain’s top religious figure of citizenship, Iran’s foreign minister says infringement on the rights of Bahraini people by a certain group is unacceptable.
Sheikh Qassim, redline for Bahrain’s regime: IRGC commander

Jun 20, 2016 16:09

A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the sanctuary of the most senior Bahraini religious scholar, Sheikh Isa Qassim, is a redline whose violation will set fire to Bahrain and the entire region.