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Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan mark Ashoura
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoShiites in Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan chanted, paraded and beat their chests on Tuesday as they...
How Shiite Islam reached Tanzania, and Ashoura processions became an annual tradition
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoShiite women prepare to march in the inaugural Ashoura procession in a neighborhood of Arusha,...
Shia Muslims' Stand with Dignity campaign marked with peace walk in Carteret
Home News Tribune | My Central Jersey via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe local Shia Muslim community will honor Imam Hussain, a martyr who defended Islam with a small...
Indian authorities allow Muslim procession in Kashmir's main city for the first time in 3 decades
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThousands of Shiite Muslims were allowed to hold a religious procession marking the Muslim month of...
Iran leader appears in public after nearly two weeks
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke to students in person Saturday after being out of the public eye for nearly two...
18 people have been killed in Iraq after a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims to Karbala overturned
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA bus carrying pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Karbala overturned north of Baghdad on Saturday,...
Police break up Muslim gathering in Kashmir, dozens detained
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPolice on Sunday detained dozens of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir as they dispersed Shiite...
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader urges Muslims to 'punish' Quran desecrators if governments fail to do so
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah said Saturday that if governments of...
In Kashmir, 'conscious music' tests India’s limits on speech
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt is mournful in tone but lavish in lyrical symbolism inspired by Sufism, an Islamic mystic...
6 killed in Damascus suburb bombing near Shiite Muslim shrine ahead of the holy day of Ashoura
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA motorcycle planted with explosives detonated in a Damascus suburb near a Shiite Muslim shrine Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens a day before the solemn holy day of ...