The 25th Meeting of Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (COMCEC) will take place in Istanbul between November 5 and 9, 2009 at the Lutfi Kirdar Congress Center.

Indonesia is hosting a three-day seminar on Islamic schools (madrassas), which was opened by the country's religious affairs minister, Suryadharma Ali, on Tuesday.

The first-ever American Muslim Consumer Conference will be held Oct. 31 at Rutgers University. The goal of the event is to dispel negative stereotypes of Muslims by highlighting their contributions to America's society and economy.

Members of the Christian and Muslim communities across Italy are organising a dialogue day on 27 October. The initiative is being spearheaded by a fortnightly online Christian magazine ildialogo.org, and is supported by dozens of groups and associations from both faiths.

The 3rd Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions will take place in Astana on July 1-2, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashikbayev told a Monday press briefing.

On the auspicious occasion of the birth anniversary of Hazrat Fateme Zahra (AS), a conference entitled “Hazrat Fateme, Example of a Muslim Woman” was held in Shkodra, Albania.

The 3rd international Islamic Union Conference on "Shia-Sunnni Scholars Dialogue" was commenced in London, yesterday.

Alireza Esmaeeli, the Iran Cultural Attaché in Italy announced the news on holding a conference on “Studying Philosophical Thoughts of Imam Khomeini” in “Italian Institution of Philosophical Studies” in late February 2010.

A scientific congress on “Imam Khomeini in View of Knowledge and Action” will be held in Iran Culture House in Karachi on June 4.

An international seminar on “Peace and Justice” kicked off Sunday, May 24, in the holy city of Qom.

A series of talks are being held in Coventry to break down some of the myths and misconceptions about Islam.

On May 29 and 30, McGill University’s Faculty of Religious Studies, Institute of Islamic Studies, and Centre for Research on Religion are hosting a conference on Buddhism and Islam: Encounters, Histories, Dialogue and Representation.

A proposal to celebrate religious holidays on the same day around the world has been accepted at the 7th Eurasia Islamic Council Meeting in Istanbul.

The relation between ethics and politics in the philosophy of Farabi will be discussed in a conference entitled “ Farabi, Philosophy, Religion and Culture” in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Turkey’s official Directorate of Religious Affairs will host the 7th Eurasia Islamic Congress on Islam this week in Istanbul.

An international conference entitled “Women in the History of Islam during the 7th-13th Centuries” is to be held in Tehran in the coming November.

The Quran and Islamic Teachings TV is producing a series on “Nature in the Quran.

An international seminar on “Need and Potentials for Convergence in Islamic World” is planned to be held in Jakarta in the middle of June.

All the principles of human rights can be obtained from the holy Quran and Islamic teachings, said a University of Tehran professor.

Iran Cultural Center in France is to organize a seminar on “Character of Hazrat-e-Zahra (SA)" in Paris in May.

The Russian Centre of Islamic Economics and Finance, the Centre of Perspective Economic Research of Academy of Science (Tatarstan, Russia), Kuala-Lumpur Business School (Malaysia) and IFC Linova (Tatarstan, Russia) are jointly organizing the first International Islamic Business and Finance Summit on June 11-12, 2009.