Pope says meeting Shiite cleric ‘good for my soul’
By AFP – Mar 09,2021 – JORDAN TIMES This handout photo released by Ayatollah Sistani’s media office shows Iraq’s most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani (centre) meeting […]
Pope, top Shiite cleric plead for ‘peace’ in historic Iraq encounter
By AFP – Mar 06,2021 – JORDAN TIMES Pope Francis (right) is greeted by children upon his arrival at Baghdad’s Saint Joseph Cathedral on the second day of the first […]
Pope Francis arrives in Iraq’s Najaf to meet top Shia cleric Sistani
Pope Francis began a historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani on Saturday, in a powerful appeal for coexistence in a land torn by sectarianism and violence. Francis’s […]
Iran vying for leadership of Shi’ites in Iraq
Reuters International This content was published on November 7, 2017 2:52 PMNov 7, 2017 – 14:52 Shi’ite worshippers place copies of the Koran on their heads during Ramadan at the […]
Two young Arab leaders to keep an eye on
Aug 17,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI If you were looking for a single moment that captured the peculiar nature of leadership and how history is determined in […]
Top Iraq Shiite cleric Sistani to end weekly political messages
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. (AP) AFP Published — Saturday 6 February 2016 BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite cleric will no longer provide weekly Friday political messages that have had a major impact on politics and security, an apparent sign of frustration with the government. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who is revered […]
Three Cheers for Sistani
By Paul Iddon – Jul 31, 2015 When Iraq’s most pre-eminent Shia cleric comments on political affairs it’s worth your while to listen. But don’t expect some rabble-rousing sectarian demagoguery […]
Sistani: Fighters must respect all people’s rights
Reuters DAILY STAR LEBANON BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged fighters Friday to respect the rights of all Iraqis, regardless of sect or politics, after […]
Sistani: Fighters must respect all people's rights
Reuters DAILY STAR LEBANON BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged fighters Friday to respect the rights of all Iraqis, regardless of sect or politics, after […]
Syria war widens rift between Shiite clergy in Iraq, Iran
Reuters | Jul 20, 2013 | ARABNEWS NAJAF — The civil war in Syria is widening a rift between top Shiite Muslim clergy in Iraq and Iran who have taken […]