The Institute of the Holy Quran - Babel Branch - Department of Islamic and Human Knowledge Affairs at the al-Abbas's (p holy shrine concluded its Qur'anic projects of the year 2017, through organizing a ceremony held on Saturday January 6, 2018.

The Permanent Preparatory Committee for the International Cultural Festival of Martyrdom's Spring started holding meetings on the establishment of its 14th edition, which will be held by the General Secretaries of the holy shrines of Imam al-Hussayn and of al-Abbas (PBUH), planned to coincide with the birth of the Mohammadian lights of Ahl al-Bayt (PBUH) in the coming month of Sha’ban, starting from the third to the seventh of the same month.

A delegation from the Guidance and Mobilization Center in the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH) visited some divisions at the Iraqi-Syrian borders.

Director of Razavi Food Company said, “Razavi and Momtaz Razavi brands have to be raised in the international arena more than before”.

The director of the Department of Studies and Planning of the Astan Quds Razavi International Center for International Affairs announced the equipping of Shia booth at the Museum of the History of the Religions of St. Petersburg.

The branch of the House of the Holy Quran in Baghdad that belongs to the Religious Affairs Department in the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH) celebrated the graduation of two graduating classes in pondering on the Quran and Quranic intonation.

The custodian of Imam Hussein Shrine sheikh Abdul-Mehdi El-Kerbela’ey received the Iraqi ambassador to Paris Haider Esh-Shemreti.

The unit of construction equipment in the engineering maintenance department of the General Secretariat of the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine completed a project of installing guiding plates indicating the Qibla direction In the main streets of the holy province of Karbala.

Within the framework of the plan to be implemented, the technical and engineering staff working in the first part of the second phase of the project to strengthen and re-gilding the walls of the Great Gold Iwan, known as "Al-Tarimah", began the work of removing the old tiles and their bonding materials, in order to start the second part.

Daryah Sear Gevnah, the Russian woman, converted to Shiism inside the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH). She arranged her marriage contract with Dr. Ahmed al-Zuhairi in the Hospitality House.

The Human Resources Development Division in the Administrative Affairs Department concluded its third course for teaching the Persian language.

“The government proves its efforts to unravel people's problems in the field of action” Grand Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi said.

The international expert of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought called the issue of insight as one of the most urgent needs of the Mahdavi or Mahdi (A.S.) community and said, "For the arrival, the society has to go through a degree of advance in science and other aspects."

The Center for Quranic Sciences and its interpretation and printing of the Holy Quran Institute in the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine has issued within the series of its Quranic publications; the Quranic vocabulary of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them), which is one of the important publications in modern Quranic studies.

As a continuation of its program of support for the families of the martyrs of the security forces and the popular mobilization, which began since the first spark of the fatwa for the defense of Iraq and its sanctities, the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine honored a group of families of martyrs of the honorable scientific Hawza in Najaf who sacrificed their soul to liberate the land from the desecration of the terrorist ISIL gangs.

Mr. Ali Hussein, the headmaster of al-Khawarnaq preparatory school, said, “In cooperation with the House of the Holy Quran, we held a competition for memorizing and reciting (with the rules of intonation) the Holy Quran. The Religious Affairs Department sent us the Quran teachers from the House of the Holy Quran in the aforementioned department.”

Olka was Christian and she converted to Shiism. She visited the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH). Women’s Affairs Department received her.

An Irish young man residing in London converted to Shiite Islam at the Razavi Shrine.

A special program was held by Astan Quds Razavi’s Islamic propagation assistance in Razavi Holy Shrine, concurrent with the 8th anniversary of the epic event of the Dey 9th/December 30th.

A group of Muslim cultural activists from Netherlands visited Razavi Holy Shrine, thanks to the endeavor of Astan Quds Razavi’s center for international affairs.