A group of detained Bahraini Shia Muslim clerics call on Pope Francis to push for reforms when he visits the Persian Gulf kingdom early next month.

Sheikh al-Zakzaky says that although Saudi Arabia was involved in the Zaria massacre, the kingdom had only acted on the orders of Washington and London.

Bahrain’s most prominent Shia cleric says the ruling Al Khalifah regime is trying to place the yoke of slavery on the nation.

Bahraini authorities prevent a distinguished Shia Muslim cleric from traveling to Iraq to join masses of pilgrims marching to the holy city of Karbala to commemorate Arba’een.

A UN special rapporteur says she is concerned about the fate of imprisoned Saudi Shia cleric and human rights activist Sheikh Mohammed Hassan al-Habib.

A distinguished Lebanese Shia Muslim cleric slams as a “theatrical event” a recent summit in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea city of Jeddah with US President Joe Biden and some Arab leaders in attendance.

The Sadr bloc has resigned to pave the way for another set of elections in Iraq. But what guarantee is there that history will not repeat itself with more political paralysis?

The death toll from the stabbing incident at the Imam Reza Shrine in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad has reached two after another cleric succumbed to his wounds at a local hospital on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia reportedly arrests Sheikh Kadhim al-Amri, a leading Shia cleric in the holy city of Medina, without any charges.

Six years have passed since Saudi authorities have executed top dissident Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr.