COLOMBO (IQNA) – Sri Lankan Muslims held special prayers on Friday for the thousands of Palestinians killed and wounded by Israeli attacks on Gaza.
News ID: 3486048 Publish Date : 2023/11/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Muslim community in Colombo is set to organize an open iftar event on April 2 as it has invited all people to participate in it.
News ID: 3482971 Publish Date : 2023/03/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The worst economic crisis facing debt-ridden Sri Lanka has forced Muslims to forgo the Hajj pilgrimage this year.
News ID: 3479150 Publish Date : 2022/06/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Worshippers in a mosque in London were attacked by a mob as they were preparing to break their fast on Tuesday.
News ID: 3478590 Publish Date : 2022/04/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sri Lanka put an end to the controversial policy of burying Muslims in a remote site.
News ID: 3478026 Publish Date : 2022/03/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Quranic book by Martyr Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti has been translated into Tamil and published in Sri Lanka.
News ID: 3477756 Publish Date : 2022/02/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An originally Persian book titled “Stories As Sweet As Honey”, which tells the story of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) life for children in a simple language, has been translated into Sinhala and published in Sri Lanka.
News ID: 3477693 Publish Date : 2022/02/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot.
News ID: 3476853 Publish Date : 2021/12/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Sinhala translation of the Holy Quran was gifted to the Jama Masjid in India’s capital by the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Milinda Moragoda on Monday.
News ID: 3476505 Publish Date : 2021/11/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sri Lanka’s government said it would take time to consider a proposed ban on the wearing of burqas, which a top security official called a sign of “religious extremism”.
News ID: 3474261 Publish Date : 2021/03/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) hailed Pakistan’s premier for supporting Muslim minorities and oppressed nations.
News ID: 3474258 Publish Date : 2021/03/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The secretary general of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) condemned discrimination against Muslims in Sri Lanka.
News ID: 3474250 Publish Date : 2021/03/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sri Lanka announced plans to ban the wearing of burqas and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools known as madrassas, citing national security.
News ID: 3474232 Publish Date : 2021/03/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) hailed the recent decision by Sri Lanka to lift a controversial order to cremate the bodies of all people who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including Muslims.
News ID: 3474112 Publish Date : 2021/02/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on Sri Lanka to respect the right of burial of the Muslim community.
News ID: 3474078 Publish Date : 2021/02/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A group of Muslim families are launching a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) about Sri Lanka’s policy of enforced cremation of all those confirmed or suspected to have died with COVID, saying it breaches their religious rights and is causing “untold misery”.
News ID: 3473940 Publish Date : 2021/02/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Every few days, Sri Lankan Muslims take to the streets in hopes that their protest will help to change government guidelines and allow them to bury their coronavirus dead.
News ID: 3473611 Publish Date : 2021/01/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Malaysian Muslim organization has called on Sri Lanka to allow the bodies of Muslims who died of COVID-19 to be buried according to the Islamic practice.
News ID: 3471450 Publish Date : 2020/05/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A year after the Easter bombs that killed more than 250 people, Muslims in Sri Lanka fear rising communal tensions, harassment and oppression amid the pandemic lockdown.
News ID: 3471120 Publish Date : 2020/04/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Iranian Cultural Center in Sri Lanka held a Quran recitation contest on the weekend.
News ID: 3470124 Publish Date : 2019/12/16
