Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad, a prominent Shia cleric, has condemned the government's Waqf bill, claiming it's designed to seize waqf properties unlawfully. He criticized the Joint Parliamentary Committee ...

Egyptian officials are now hopeful that the recent burial of Aga Khan IV in the mausoleum's tomb in the city of Aswan will ...

A bomb blast has killed at least five people and wounded seven in northeastern Afghanistan, local police report. The blast ...

Pundits like Thomas Friedman claimed that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was a reformer committed to liberalization. In reality, the Saudi kingdom remains unflinchingly authoritarian, ...

The coronation of His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV in Kampala, in 1957, brought to Uganda the installation of the Shia Ismaili Muslims’ Imam for the first time in 14 centuries.Today, ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Israel has destroyed 79% of the mosques in the Gaza Strip and completely demolished three churches, the spokesperson for the enclave’s Ministry of Endowments told Anadolu. Ikrami Al-Mudallal ...

Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shia cleric and his sister during Saddam ...

Colorful Ortakoy mosque and Bosphorus Bridge in the background. Istanbul is known for its incredible Ottoman-era (and beyond) architecture and that extends to its mosques and other places of worship.

Replacing old mosques with new versions of older Hindu temples – as a number of court cases in India currently aim to do – does not right old wrongs; it perpetrates new ones. Unless the Supreme Court ...

The Kebbi Government on Thursday said it has awarded the contract for the repairs and renovation of 97 mosques across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state. The State Commissioner for ...

The eastern regions of Saudi Arabia have been on alert since last year when Daesh carried out two attacks on Shia mosques. In August, a suicide attack killed 15 people in an bombing on a mosque ...