The Islamic Republic of Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi has expressed concern over Iranian Muslims converting into Christianity in various parts of Iran. Speaking on Saturday May 4, Alavi said that the Intelligence Ministry and the Qom Seminary have dispatched individuals and instituti...
Halakha (Jewish Law) has accepted genetic engineering as a method to improve quality or increase amount of food in the world; while there is no consensus on advantages of GM foods or any study on consuming these foods in Christianity. From Islamic viewpoint, there is no need to modify ...
Yet they were strongly prohibited from converting the Muslim population to Christianity.The History of English in Iran (1836–1979) 41 Under these conditions, missionaries of various denominations – most notably the French Lazarist Catholics, British Angelicas, American Presbyterians and, to a ...
Pilgrimage is one of the few times Shias are able to actually see the country for themselves. A visit to Iran isn’t just a chance to pray at the shrines of holy women and men; it’s also an opportunity to evaluate the positives and negatives of the Iranian political model. Fatima Maso...
In the Iran-Iraq War, Ayatollah Khomeini usedchildren (age 12 to 17) rolling along the ground to clear minefields. The poor children believed the nonsense they were taught in school about an "afterlife" where they would supposedly live after death:"The young men cleared the mines with their...
Christianity and Islam and was the state religion in Iran from 6th century BC to 7th century AD. Most information about prophet Zoroaster (Zarathushtra, Zardosht), son of Pourushaspa, of the Spitaman family comes from the Gathas, 17 hymns which were composed by the prophet and were preserve...
(v) 'Requiem' as 'global Islamism' (frequency = 1): There was only one informant who thought that Shi'ite festivities are good instruments for converting the world towards the interests of Iranian Shi'ism or 'Islamism': 'If the language of requiems is clear and understandable, it will ...