Hawzah News Agency
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‘Victoria's Muslim community concerned it's fielding blame for coronavirus spike
Recent media reporting is creating “division, hatred and fear” and has unfairly laid the blame for Melbourne’s coronavirus spike on Muslims, according to the Islamic Council of Victoria.
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Ayatollah Khamenei: If the Iranian nation does its duty, the "maximum pressure" policy will be a punch to the U.S.
The recent actions of the Judiciary in “reviving public rights” are truly pleasing. Prosecutors must try their best to defend the rights of the people. These rights include prosecuting those who harm the environment and confronting the unnecessary shutdown of manufacturing firms."
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Zionist warplanes strike Gaza, Hamas voice determination to confront annexation
Security sources in Gaza told there were strikes in the area of Khan Yunis, at the southern tip of the Palestinian territory of two million inhabitants.
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F&Q:
Why Pray in Arabic?
Tawhid is the basic root and branches of religion and turning towards one Qibla in appointed time, in a specific language is the sign of Unity.
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Singapore mosques resume Friday prayers after 15-week suspension
A Bernama survey around the Sultan Mosque in Kampung Glam today found that a few of the staff were seen ready to receive congregants at Gate 3 of the mosque before the Zuhur prayer call (Azan Zuhur).
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India rejects Muslim bloc's stand on Jammu and Kashmir
“Our position is consistent on this matter and has no ambiguity. OIC has no locus standing in matters strictly internal to India, including that of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” said Anurag Srivastava, spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs.
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Mosque near Mumbai serves as free Oxygen centre for COVID patients
The facility was set up by the local chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH), Movement for Peace and Justice as well as Shanti Nagar Trust at Makkah Masjid in Shanti Nagar area in East Bhiwandi, which has recently seen a spike in COVID cases. The facility currently has five beds with oxygen cylinders attached with them to assist the patients facing difficulty in breathing. Additionally, JIH has also started a free-of-cost service to provide oxygen cylinders to patients at their homes.
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Muslim woman arrested at black lives matter protest, her hijab forcibly removed
Alaa Massri was arrested at a protest June 10, according to the Miami Police Department, and charged with battery, resisting an officer with violence and disorderly conduct. After her arrest, Massri was taken to the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she says she was asked to remove her hijab for a booking photograph, her lawyer Khurrum Wahid told CNN.
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Leeds Imam says reopening of mosques will play huge role in 'hope and healing'
Announcing the easing of lockdown restrictions, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that places of worship will be able to reopen, with weddings of up to 30 people allowed.
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Palestinian civilian shot and killed by IOF at checkpoint in Bethlehem
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) stresses that the Israeli military used disproportionate force, especially considering the fact that the victim posed no real threat to the troops’ lives in light of the heavy fortifications at the checkpoint. This incident is yet another example of Israel’s systemic policy of shooting Palestinian civilians in a direct manner and as an immediate reaction.
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Hamas: Annexation decision a ‘declaration of war’ that Israeli enemy will regret
“The Resistance considers the annexation of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley as a declaration of war against our people and we will make the enemy regret that decision,” said the spokesman for Al-Qassam Brigades Abu Obaida.
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UN Aid Chief: Yemen ‘will fall Off cliff’ without new funds
Mark Lowcock told a closed Security Council meeting Wednesday that COVID-19 is spreading rapidly across Yemen and about 25% of the country’s confirmed cases have died — “five times the global average.”
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Boosting quantity and quality of medical services, a priority for AQR: deputy custodian
In a visit to Razavi Hospital, Mostafa Khaksar Qahroudi, the deputy custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, lauded medical staff of the country for rendering services to coronavirus patients, saying: “Given the current situation, AQR is obliged to take steps toward removing problems and boosting safety and health of the people, and the medical and pharmaceutical centers of Astan Quds Razavi are doing their best to that end.”
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Israeli troop given derisory sentence for the unlawful killing of a Palestinian fisherman
A suspended sentence ranging from two months to two years, and a demotion in rank were added by the court, which convicted the troop on the charges of “disobeying an order leading to a threat to life or health”, per article 72 of Israeli Martial Law (1955) and “negligence and reckless endangerment”, per article 341 of Israeli Penal Law (1977).
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Coventry's churches, mosques and temples announce re-opening measures
No singing, stewards in PPE and praying from a distance are set to be the new normal as places of worship plan to re-open their doors to congregations from July 4.
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Book introduction:
“Philosophy of Islamic laws” written by Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi and Ayatollah Ja'far Subhani
Islam not only gives its followers the right to question the different topics but also the true guides of Islam have invited people to ask questions.
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Reports Melbourne coronavirus cluster originated at Eid party could stoke Islamophobia
“I’m really concerned, I’m thinking ‘here we go again’, scapegoating, marginalising, unfairly stigmatising the Muslim community,” said Adel Salman, the vice-president of the Islamic Council of Victoria.
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AQR observes protocols in holy shrine to prevent spread of Covid-19
Mostafa Feyzi, in a meeting dubbed “Intensification of health protocols implementation in the holy shrine” which was held in the presence of AQR and provincial managers and health officials of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in the holy shrine, expressed solutions to prevent the spread of the virus in the holy shrine.
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Anatolia’s 1st Turkish mosque to open to worship after restoration
According to a statement from the Ministry of Industry and Technology, the Serhat Development Agency, operating under the umbrella of the General Directorate of Development Agencies, has launched efforts to transfer the mosque to future generations and boost its national and international recognition.
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UN’s Security Council discusses Israeli annexation plan for parts of West Bank
Deputy-spokesperson for the United Nations’ Secretary General, Farhan Haq, said in a press briefing that United Nations’ Secretary General, António Guterres, along with the United Nations’ envoy for Middle East Peace, Nickolay Mladenov , will be briefing member states of United Nations’ Security Council on the planned Israeli annexation.
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Shireen Mazari: ‘Unity is solution to Muslim world challenges’
She was addressing an international webinar organised by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). International speakers who spoke on this occasion included British House of Lord Member Lord Nazir Ahmed, British Member of Parliament Khalid Mehmood, Member Turkish Prime Minister’s Advisory board for Human Rights Dr Hamit Ersoy, Vice President to Egyptian National Constitutional Committee Dr. Kamal Helbawi, Professor Dr Halil Tokar, Istanbul University, Turkey; .
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Mosques reopened in Turkey for prayers after virus suspension
Ali Erbaş tweeted that worshipper sare obliged to wear masks and maintain social distancing rules.
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IMN calls for Zakzaky's immediate release
During the presser, the speakers said Sheikh Zakzaky and his supporters have suffered a brutal crackdown in the hands of soldiers of the Nigerian Army, where not less than one thousand the Islamic cleric’s supporters were killed in cold blood.
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Muslim bloc urges peaceful solution to Kashmir issue
In an online meeting, the foreign ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Niger, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia renewed their continued support for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, as well as called on UN Secretary Generla Antonio Guterres to work to make India abide by UN Security Council's resolutions and engage in dialogue to calm the situation in the region.