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Millions of devotees on monumental Arba’een journey
Oct 26, 2018 11:06The Arbaeen March, as the traditional 40th day of mourning for the martyrs of the epic of Ashura nears, and pilgrims make their way to the city of Karbala in Iraq for paying homage at the holy shrine of the Chief of Martyrs, Imam Husain (AS), the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA).
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Shia Muslim woman injured amid Saudi regime forces’ raid on Qatif
Oct 17, 2018 16:45A young woman has been shot and injured after Saudi regime forces stormed the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents.
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Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim re-hospitalized in UK
Oct 11, 2018 11:41Bahrain's most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, will undergo a second surgery on his eye on Thursday in a hospital in the British capital, London.
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Nigerians protest rally in Abuja to demand Sheikh Zakzaki's release
Oct 06, 2018 11:11Shia Muslims in Nigerian capital of Abuja have one again staged a protest rally to call for the release of the prominent religious scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who is still in prison despite a 2016 high court ruling.
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Islamophobic hate crime injures Muslim worshipers at north London mosque
Sep 19, 2018 11:19Worshippers leaving a mosque in London have been hit by a car in a possible hate crime that saw the driver hurling Islamophobic slurs at the people taking part in a religious ceremony for the martyrdom anniversary of Prophet Muhammad's (SAWA) grandson.
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Saudi forces tear down Muharram mourning tents in Qatif region
Sep 13, 2018 07:46Reports coming out of Saudi Arabia say the regime’s troops have attacked tents set up in the kingdom’s Shia-populated Qatif region in preparation for the mourning rituals during the lunar month of Muharram.
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About 20 killed in twin bombings in Afghan capital
Sep 05, 2018 14:51At least 20 people have been killed and nearly 70 others injured in twin bombings inside a sports club in a mainly Shia Muslim area of western Kabul.
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About 48 martyred in bomb explosion in Shia Muslim neighborhood of Afghan capital
Aug 15, 2018 14:36Nearly 50 people have been martyred in a bomb attack in front of an educational center in a mainly Shia Muslim area of western Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
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Mosque attack martyrs at least 25 in Afghanistan
Aug 03, 2018 09:10More than two dozen people have been martyred in a terrorist bomb attack at a Shia Muslim mosque in eastern Afghanistan near Pakistan's border.
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Nigeria court acquits 80 Zakzaky supporters
Aug 01, 2018 06:53A top Nigerian court has cleared dozens of the followers of prominent religious scholar Ibrahim al-Zakzaky of criminal charges, raising hopes for the release of the religious scholar himself, who has been held captive for almost three years by the Abuja government.