• Nigerian forces martyred mourner in Kaduna’s Ashura procession

    Nigerian forces martyred mourner in Kaduna’s Ashura procession

    Aug 31, 2020 01:57

    Nigerian forces have martyred a mourner and a press reporter after attacking the Ashura procession in the northern state of Kaduna.

  • Pakistan to adopt Iran’s model for Muharram

    Pakistan to adopt Iran’s model for Muharram

    Aug 13, 2020 09:21

    Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan called on his people to follow Iran’s model for Muharram mourning ceremonies.

  • Ali, the Imam of all mankind

    Ali, the Imam of all mankind

    Aug 08, 2020 03:18

    Today is the auspicious 18th of Zi’l-Hijjah, the anniversary of an immortal event in the history of mankind.

  • Grand Ayatollah Sistani urges world’s benefactors to help Lebanese nation

    Grand Ayatollah Sistani urges world’s benefactors to help Lebanese nation

    Aug 06, 2020 10:39

    Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani has called on benefactors across the world to show solidarity with the Lebanese people and rush to their assistance with all available means after a massive blast wreaked havoc on Beirut.

  • Ghadir: Shower of mercy for all

    Ghadir: Shower of mercy for all

    Aug 06, 2020 03:12

    We are on the eve of the auspicious occasion of the 18th of Zilhajjah, the Day of Ghadir, which marks the Greatest Eid of Islam, in honour of the perfection of faith by God Almighty following proclamation of Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS) as Vicegerent by Prophet Mohammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny), while returning from his Farewell Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca in the year 10 AH.

  • "Opposition movement keeping up with its cause"

    Jul 22, 2020 11:50

    Bahrain’s most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim says the opposition movement in the Persian Gulf island State would keep up with its cause until the people’s rights are recognized by Manama.

  • Bahrain to execute two activists despite concerns over torture

    Bahrain to execute two activists despite concerns over torture

    Jul 17, 2020 14:56

    A high-ranking official with Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says death sentences being imposed against human rights campaigners and political dissidents will increase the public demand for the restructuring of the country’s political system.

  • Sheikh Zakzaky’s lawyers demand dismissal of case, immediate release

    Sheikh Zakzaky’s lawyers demand dismissal of case, immediate release

    Jul 17, 2020 07:46

    The lawyers of the jailed Muslim religious scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky have called for the dismissal of the case against him and his wife as well as their immediate release from the Nigerian government's captivity.

  • Iraqis rally to decry Saudi paper’s offensive cartoon of Grand Ayatollah Sistani

    Iraqis rally to decry Saudi paper’s offensive cartoon of Grand Ayatollah Sistani

    Jul 05, 2020 07:50

    Iraqi protesters have staged a demonstration in the capital Baghdad to condemn Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat newspaper over an offensive cartoon depicting Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani.

  • Black lives do not matter even in black Nigeria

    Black lives do not matter even in black Nigeria

    Jul 02, 2020 07:55

    If the slogans and the placards reading "Black Lives Matter” in protest to the sporadic killings of citizens of color by the white-skinned US police forces have caught the attention of the international media, these same media horns have not much focused on the organized killing of black Nigerian Shi’a Muslims by the Nigerian regime of the same dark color which also claims to be Muslim.