Adviser to the Head of the Chechen Republic, Mufti of Chechnya Salakh-Haji Mezhiev held an extended meeting with leaders and teaching staff of the religious institutions of the Chechen Republic.

 

It was attended by the rectors of the Sheikh Kunta-Khadzhi Kishiev Islamic University Abdurahim Mutushev and the Kurchaloev Islamic University named after Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov Khozh-Ahmad Ibrahimov.

 

There is a positive trend in increasing the number of marriages in relation to the recorded divorces in the first half of the year, according to the municipal registrar's office in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala.

 

As reported by Makhachkala municipal administration some 1513 couples entered into marriage from January to June 2018.

 

Djibouti on Thursday launched the first phase of Africa's biggest free-trade zone, seeking to capitalise on its strategic position on one of the world's busiest trade routes.

 

The Horn of Africa nation, located at the mouth of the Red Sea and south of the Suez Canal, in 2017 unveiled three new ports and a railway linking it to landlocked Ethiopia, as part of its bid to become a global trade and logistics hub.

 

Republican tournament among Muslims in minifootball will be held on July 8 in Arsk district of Tatarstan.

 

Teams from Nizhnekamsk and Naberezhnye Chelny, Apastovsky, Sabinsky, Atninsky, Baltasinsky, Kukmorsky, Tyulyachinsky and other regions of the republic will take part in the competitions. 

 

Arsky Muhtasibat will be represented by two teams: city and district. The first three winners will be awarded the Cup of Arsky Muhtasibat, and the most dexterous players will be awarded with valuable gifts.

Employees of the 1st regiment of Patrol and Guard Service Raul Sultanov and Ali Abakarov while conducting a courtyard detour of the site assigned to them, rushed to help a drowning man in Makhachkala, Dagestani capital.

 

Local resident Zoya Huseynova ran towards the police car with shouts of help. As it turned out, a man fell into the canal in the courtyard, and the current carried him under the bridge, which complicated the situation. After an independent attempt to save the man, she saw the police car passing in the yard.

The importance of supporting and coordinating joint Arab humanitarian work was highlighted when the High Coordination Committee for Arab Joint Action held its 47th session on Tuesday under the chairmanship of the secretary-general of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit.

 

President of the Arab Organization for Tourism Dr. Bandar bin Fahd Al-Fihaid thanked King Salman for agreeing to host the meeting, and for the support and facilities provided by the Kingdom.

 

Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian Bedouin community near East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. 

 

“Military bulldozers, backed by Israeli forces, stormed the Abu al-Nawwar Bedouin community at dawn and demolished ten Palestinian homes and livestock barracks,” Daoud Jahaleen, a spokesperson for the community, told Anadolu Agency. 

 

He said the community is home to 687 Palestinians, 65% of them are children. 

 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has applauded Turkey for hosting more than 3 million Syrian refugees and renewed a call on EU member states to assume more responsibility for a European solution to the refugee crisis.

 

Addressing lawmakers in Germany's parliament on Wednesday, Merkel underlined the importance of an EU decision last week to allocate an additional €3 billion in assistance for Syrian refugees in Turkey. 

 

Zakat Charitable Foundation of the Spiritual Office of Muslims of Tatarstan provided 17 needy families with meat of sacrificial animal in Kazan.

 

The event for the distribution of the meat of the Shukr-Qurban (performed in gratitude to the Almighty) was held on the initiative of one of the benefactors. Meat was delievered to large families and families with disable children. All those who received the presents expressed great gratitude to the organizers of the event.

 

The Soviet period of the history of the Russian State is marked, beginning with repression and ending with the collapse of mosques and their transformation into cattle yards, expulsions of Alims to Siberia and simply their unaddressed disappearance, prohibition of praying, reciting the Quran and performing Hajj.