Photos: Carpet washing ceremony in Iran’s Mashhad-e Ardehal
The Carpet Washing [Ghali Shuyan] Ceremony, one of the religious ceremonies of Shia Muslims, is annually held in Mashhad-e Ardehal, near the…
The Carpet Washing [Ghali Shuyan] Ceremony, one of the religious ceremonies of Shia Muslims, is annually held in Mashhad-e Ardehal, near the…
Tehran, Sept 20, IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday urged Shia-Sunni solidarity and avoid…
Millions of Shia Muslims across the world, including in Iran, are celebrating the Eid al-Ghadeer, which marks the appointment of the first…
The secretary general of Bahrain’s al-Wefaq National Islamic Society has called on the UN high commissioner for human rights to put an end…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A Bahraini political activist took a swipe at the Al Khalifa ruling regime for its plans to create sectarian…
Over 2,000 Nigerians have taken part in a protest rally calling for the release of prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.…
Bahraini authorities have started handing down prison sentences to those holding sit-ins in protest at the regime’s decision to revoke the citizenship of prominent Shia Muslim…
Shia Muslims constitute the most important minority, and of course the most discriminated group of people, living within the national borders of…
Dozens of protesters have rallied in Bahrain to condemn a ban on holding Friday prayers and to denounce the Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown…
A government-commissioned report says the Nigerian army killed 348 Shia Muslims during an attack on a religious ceremony last year. The Monday…
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) – President Rouhani said Sunni and Shia unity is among the fundamental principles of political thought of the…
Judicial authorities in Bahrain have sentenced five Shia Muslims to prison and revoked their citizenship on alleged charges of terrorism. A prosecution statement said…
Saudi Arabia has sentenced 14 people to death after convicting them of attacks on police in the Shia-populated area of Qatif in Eastern Province. Another nine…
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US is currently in a fight against Islam, Iran and Shia…
Nigeria’s Army mowed down as many as 347 Muslims last December while swooping on the followers of the country’s leading Shia cleric, a…
Saudi Arabia has put 32 people on trial, including 30 members of its own Shia Muslim minority, accused of spying for Iran,…
Tehran, December 31, The Iran Project – Iran’s senior cleric says preventing the spread of Shia teachings by Ibrahim Zakzaki in Nigeria is…
Tehran, December 16, The Iran Project- Top Iranian clerics continue to react over the massive killing of Nigerian Shia Muslims by the…
Tehran, December 15, The Iran Project- Two days after the brutal crackdown of almost a thousand of Nigerian Shia Muslims and detention…
Qom, Dec 15, IRNA – Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani expressed his deep dismay over the killings of Shia Muslims in Pakistan…
Iran has denounced a recent terrorist attack in Nigeria that targeted Shia Muslims during a religious ceremony in the northern state of…
Tehran, Nov 14, IRNA – The Islamic Center of England in London plans to hold a mourning ceremony on the occasion of…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement’s second-in-command, Sheikh Naim Qassem, underlined that the Palestinian issue is something on which Shias…
Iranians are holding mourning ceremonies to commemorate Tasu’a, which marks the ninth day of the lunar month of Muharram, on the eve…
TEHRAN, Jan. 31 (MNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman denounced recent terrorist acts against innocent people in a Shia mosque in Pakistan,…
Qom, Jan 3, IRNA – Religious leader Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani said on Saturday that Wahhabists are publicizing Takfiri mindset by a…
Tehran, Dec 31, IRNA – Imam Ali’s personality should be introduced to world nations as a factor that can unite them all,…
Berlin, Dec 23, IRNA — Iran and Germany have signed a cooperation agreement to launch a Shia studies program at a German…
Millions of Muslims across the world are holding special ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the passing of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad (Peace…
Qom, Dec 15, IRNA – Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi on Monday said good chance currently exists for approchement of Iran and…
Millions of Iranians have held mourning rituals on Arba’een, which marks the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, the…
Millions of Shia Muslims from across the globe are making their way toward the holy city of Karbala in Iraq to commemorate…
Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Iraqi Shia cleric, has called on the Iraqi people to hold rallies in support of Bahrain’s prominent Shia…
A battle between the Islamic State group and Iraqi government forces in an obscure Iraqi town is helping highlight an issue that…
TEHRAN, Nov. 08 (MNA) – Tens of thousands of Arabs attended funeral for seven people killed in Monday attack. According to Al-Manar,…
Prominent Bahraini Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Ghassem has strongly condemned the recent deadly terrorist attack on Muharram mourners in Saudi Arabia. Sheikh…
Iran has strongly condemned a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia on a gathering of Shia worshippers mourning the martyrdom anniversary of Imam…
A three-dimensional work of art in the form of a sculpture depicting the Ashura tragedy has been unveiled in the Iranian capital…
Unidentified gunmen have attacked a gathering of Shia Muslims and killed five mourners commemorating Ashura, the tenth day of the lunar month…
Millions of Muslims across the globe are holding mourning ceremonies to mark Ashura, the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PBUH),…