SHAFAQNA –xa0There are several important differences between Catholics and Protestants. While there have been some attempts over the last several years to find common ground between the two groups, the fact is that the differences remain, and they are just as important today as they were at the begi...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Muslim leaders urge members of their community to use their vote to challenge rising Islamophobia and to ‘defeat hate’. On the sidelines of the US Democratic National Convention, where delegates will formally nominate Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential candidate, Muslim leaders...

SHAFAQNA –xa0A priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men on his church in a suburb of Rouen in northe France. The attackers entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, and four other people hostage. Police later surrounded the churc...

SHAFAQNA –xa0According to the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, the National Union of Schools and Quranic Institutes of Senegal invited the Iranian Embassy and Cultural Center in the African country to attend the program titled “jou ée coranique” (Quranic Day). The national event will be h...

SHAFAQNA –xa0A group of American Muslims attended the Razavi Holy Shrine and visited the museums complex of Astan Quds Razavi. A group of twenty pilgrims visited treasuries of Qur’an and Exquisite Manuscripts including handwritten Qur’ans and those attributed to the Infallible Imams (PBUT, Master Fa...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Safi answered a question about going to fortune tellers and writers of amulets (those who write Duas). Question: What is the ruling about going to fortune tellers and writers of amulets? The Grand Ayatollah Safi: There is no problem in writing Duas with authentic proof...

SHAFAQNA – When Moawiyah asked Ahnaf ibn Qais about Imam Ali (AS), he replied: Imam Ali (AS) practiced three deeds and avoided three other deeds. When he spoke, used to captivate the hearts of the audience. When others spoke, he used to listen attentively. When others disagreed with him, he used to ...

SHAFAQNA-xa0Abu Abdullah Muhammad known as “Idris”, one of the most prominent jurisconsults in the 12th century. He was bo in 1148. Muhammad Ibn Idris was a great scholar and researcher. After death of “Sheikh al-Taefeh” (great jurisconsult) all jurisconsults considered the scientific position of “S...

A supporter holds photo of Bahrain's leading Shi'ite cleric Isa Qassim during a sit-in outside his home in the village of Diraz west of Manama, Bahrain June 21, 2016. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed SHAFAQNA-xa0The Al Khalifah regime in Bahrain has declared Wednesday as the date for the trial of distinguis...

SHAFAQNA-xa0Senior Iranian Shia cleric, Sheikh Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, urged Muslims and elites to contemplate and think about Quranic teachings stressing, the rescue of the humanity without taking the cognizance of holy Quran would not be feasible. The Qur’anic expressions on scientific issues ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0In order to bring you, our readers, closer to realities and truths, Shafaqna will conduct a series of exclusive podcast interviews with renown political analysts politicians, officials, religious leaders, and academics. As always our aim is simple – knowledge. In a world run, and based ...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –xa0No one here reports to police because they fear for their lives. . . . There are people who have been missing for more than nine months. Some are taken for a few weeks or days for questioning and then retu ed, so it is a situation that disturbs every Wajir resident. P...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –xa0More than half of the nearly 500,000 school-age Syrian children registered in Lebanon are not enrolled in formal education. Although Lebanon, which is hosting 1.1 million registered Syrian refugees, has allowed Syrian children to enroll for free in public schools, lim...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question regarding magic and sorcery.Question: What is the ruling about magic and sorcery?The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: Magic and sorcery are Haram, and are great sins, and are not allowed. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous arti...

SHAFAQNA –xa0A Bahrain prosecutor on July 17, 2016, charged a correspondent for a French media outlet with violating the country’s licensing law for jou alists, Human Rights Watch said today. The criminal charges against the jou alist, Nazeeha Saeed, who has covered Bahrain’s domestic unrest for Fra...

SHAFAQNA –xa0As Poland prepares to welcome Pope Francis for World Youth Day a statement from the Vatican has denounced an “artificially created fear of Muslims” in the country which it says is being fed by some political parties. The problem, it states, derive from the fact that Poland is “ethnicall...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Could it be that France has just blown the whistle on Salafism, and finally anchored its counter-terrorism narrative against not Islam, but the devolution which has worked to hijack its Scriptures and redact its principles? France it seems has woken up from its political stupor – and no...

SHAFAQNA –xa0A massive explosion has rocked the diplomatic district of the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Interior Ministry has confirmed. A mortar hit a school building that was empty at the time, causing no fatalities. Police say at least five people are being treated for cuts from broken glass disper...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Brazil’s Muslim community on Friday voiced support for an open investigation into suspected terrorists who officials say were planning attacks at the upcoming Olympic games. Sheikh Jihad Hassan Hammadeh who heads the ethics committee of the National Union of Islamic Entities, expressed ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Patriarch Younan is denouncing the West’s faulty presentation of a peaceful Islam The Catholic patriarch in Syria is saying Muslims who take their Quran literally are radical. The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch, Ignatius Youssef III Younan, spoke recently in Rome on ...