Prominent Shia cleric Maulana Javed Haider Zaidi has strongly opposed the ongoing surveys of religious sites, stating that ...

I say this as an imam of the Shia community in Lebanon—the biggest threat to Lebanon and the Middle East is the radical ...

The Islamic State, which emerged in the 1970s, brutalised religious minorities like the Ahmadiyya and the Shia. Then, “a ...

The Shia question is an expression of the entire Lebanese question, and requires the good will of all faiths, but also poses ...

As Israel and Iran clash, Iraq’s Shia leadership is trying to rein in domestic Iranian-backed paramilitaries to shield the ...

The systematic targeting of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, particularly in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has grown in ...

The spokesperson went on to to call the Syrian rebels 'terrorists', in a statement echoing regime leader Bashar al-Assad ...

However, years of sectarian infighting have led to a government controlled by the Shia Muslim religious majority. The Shia coalition has tried to amend the personal status law twice in the past ...

While the main responsibility of Sunni Caliphs was to maintain law and order in the Muslim realm, as descendants of the Prophet, Shia Imams (spiritual leaders) also provided religious guidance and ...