Iran and Iraq to set up security posts for Arbaeen march
Iran and Iraq have agreed to set up joint security posts on their border to control Arbaeen march. That’s according to the Iraqi interior Minister Abdul Amir Al-Shammari.
Religion
‘Like a poll tax’: Church of England should stop charging couples for weddings, say vicars
Call for high fees to be scrapped as church marriages fall by half in England and Wales between 1999 and 2019High fees are putting church weddings beyond the reach of many couples and should be scrapped or set at a nominal amount, according to clergy i…
Tehran’s streets host 10-km-long celebration march on Eid al-Ghadir
Iran’s capital, Tehran, hosts a 10-kilometer-long street celebration to commemorate Eid al-Ghadir, one of the most significant holidays for Shia Muslims worldwide.
Minnesota land linked to polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs for sale
Land was owned by brother of sex offender who was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for sexually abusing underage girlsA tract of land in Minnesota with links to a polygamous religious sect once led by Warren Jeffs has been put up for sale by the con…
Judge refuses to recuse herself from New Orleans clergy abuse case
Judge had been asked to recuse herself over donations she made to church run by archdiocese that employed admitted child abuserA federal judge overseeing a request to unseal secret files related to a Roman Catholic priest – and self-confessed predator …
Suspected arsonist arrested two years after German synagogue fire
The suspect in the arson attack on a synagogue in the south-western German city of Ulm has been arrested two years after the incident, police said on Monday. The 47-year-old Turkish man was detained at Stuttgart airport last Saturday after entering Ge…
Religious leaders ‘out of step with flocks’ on assisted dying, says UK rabbi
Jonathan Romain, chair of Dignity in Dying, says assisted dying is ‘in line with religious ideals of compassion and care’Religious leaders are “out of step with their flocks” in their opposition to assisted dying, according to a leading rabbi who has b…
‘I can’t pick up a gun’: a Ukrainian army chaplain on war, bandits and Russian ‘sadism’
Dmytro Povorotnyi is one of 160 priests who comfort Kyiv’s soldiers. This weekend he’s ready to bless more lost comrades as the counteroffensive intensifiesA hundred or more empty graves have been freshly dug into the vast scrubland that is Krasnopilly…
Renowned Iranian singer Chavoshi reacts to desecration of Holy Qur’an in Sweden
Popular Iranian musician and singer Mohsen Chavoshi slams the burning of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden, saying the sacrilegious move is rooted in a failure to distort the divine book of Muslims.
Iranians rally against desecration of Quran in Sweden
Iranians have held a protest rally outside the Swedish embassy in the capital Tehran to condemn the burning of the Quran in the European country.