During the Islamic month of Safar, pilgrims traverse the deserts from Najaf to Karbala, a 50-mile trek embodying love and solidarity. Imam Hossein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), was ...

Every year in the month of Safar — the second month of the Islamic lunar calendar — the barren deserts of Iraq turn into the stage of humanity’s greatest expression of love and solidarity. The Arbaeen ...

The event was attended by Masoud Hassannlou, secretary of the Cultural and Soft Technologies Development Center of the Iranian Vice-Presidential Office, as well as game designers, cultural activists, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of thousands of people were arriving in Karbala, Iraq ahead of Arbaeen, the Shiite pilgrimage regarded as one of the ...

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Today, almost 1 400 years after it started, the Day of Arbaeen is remembered by millions of people around the world. Typically, on this day people organise large marches in cities across the world to ...

Talented practitioners of religious theater have mobilized for this significant event and after the opening ceremony in Tehran, they will march towards Khuzestan province in southern Iran, Kourosh ...

Shiite Muslims gather in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, to mark 40 days after the holy day of Ashura commemorating the seventh century killing of Imam Hussein — Mohammed SAWAF Twenty million pilgrims, ...

ISLAMABAD: The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has announced a nationwide peaceful protest and sit-ins following a government decision to ban by-road travel for Arbaeen pilgrims, denouncing the move ...