Shafaqna

Shafaqna (Persian: شفقنا; International Shia News Association or Shia News Agency) is one of the main international Shia news-gathering organisations. It focuses on news relating to Shia Islam. It started its activities on Friday, February 24, 2012.^[1] It is an independent medium implemented in five languages: English, Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Urdu. Material in Arabic is produced out of Najaf, Persian from Tehran, Turkish from Istanbul, and English from Kashmir.^[2][3][4] Shafaqna has also launched several independent pages: Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq.

Shafaqna explained its editorial intent to extend its coverage to all Islamic and specifically Shia events and activities across the world. It would inaugurate dialogues between Shia Islam and other faiths and religions..^[5]

Much of Shafaqna progress is credited to its access to the Najaf seminary and publishing some rare photos of the tomb of prophet Muhammad and his daughter's (Fatemeh) house ^[6] and exclusive news and photos of the top Maraji of Najaf Hawzah Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.^{[7][8][9][10]}

In June 2014 Shafaqna lunched a news reader called The Newhub (International News Reader).^[11] Shafaqna Newhub (International News Reader) originated as an Internet-based news aggregator so the text which appears on Newhub is made up of a list of items and contents presented in RSS feeds offered by news gathering organisations and websites.^[12] It operates in different languages mainly English, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, French, Urdu, Dutch, and Chinese. Newhub categorized news into "Last News", "Featured", "Most popular.

As it is presented in its front page, Newhub covers most countries and news and articles in Newhub originally come from a range of global and national news agencies]], newspapers, and local web based news media from AP, AFP, EFE, and Reuters to CNN, BBC, CCTV, Kyodo, Xinhua, PRESS TV, IRIB, SPA, Itar-tass, etc.^[13]

References

External links

• Official website