The Religious Tourism Division affiliated with the Machinery Department at the Imam Ali (PBUH) Holy Shrine announced starting a special unit for providing tourism services to more than 50 Arab and foreign countries in cooperation with international travel agencies.

As a tribute to their heroic role in defending Iraq and its sanctuaries, the Medical Division of the Guidance and Mobilization Committee affiliated with the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali continues to send the wounded defenders and take care of them and ensure their treatment.

The technical staffs in the Craftsmanship Department manufactured a device that mixes the raw materials to make detergents in support of the national product adopted by the Holy Shrine to revitalize and develop the local industry.

Technical and professional staffs working in the Ataba Water project have achieved an increase in their new product of liquid detergent, within the investment projects implemented by the General Secretariat of the Holy Shrine to supply the local market with national products.

The staffs of the Engraving on Glass Division at the Imam Ali (PBUH) Holy Shrine have begun to decorate the entrances of the Holy Shrine with glass decorated with Islamic inscriptions.

O carefully examined (lady): Allah Who created you had tried you before He created you (for this worldly life), and thus He found you successfully enduring in that trial. We claim being loyalists to you, believers in you, and tolerant as regards all that which has been conveyed to us by your father, peace of Allah be upon him and his Household, and all that which his Successor has brought to us. We, thus, ask you, if we have really believed you, that you may include us with those who believe in both of them (i.e. the Holy Prophet and Imam `Al¢), so that we may feel happy that we have been purified on account of our loyalty to you.

Ameerul Mumineen Center for Translation affiliated with the Department of Intellectual and Cultural Affairs at the Imam Ali (PBUH) Holy Shrine keeps translating books about the master of the rhetoric Ali ibn Abi Talib (PBUH) into different languages such as English, Farsi, Turkish, Urdu, German, French, and Swedish.

The Iraqi Society for Soil Mechanics held a scientific symposium under the title (Geo-technical problems of soil) at the al-Furat al-Aosat Technical University with the cooperation and supervision of the holy shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH). A number of specialists in the university attended the symposium.

The Department of Engineering and Technical Affairs in the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali announced the continuation of the works at an increasing pace to complete the public conveniences No. (3) next to the city of Imam Redha (peace be upon him).

Secretary General of the Holy Shrine Eng. Yusuf al-Sheikh Radhi and his deputy Redhwan Sahib as well as members of the board of directors and heads of departments inaugurated the Al-Kawthar Health Center to render its services and treatment for the visitors and the citizens of the city of Najaf.