In a unique workshop at Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, northeast Iran, around 500 thousand prayer turbahs are produced and repaired each year. These turbahs are mostly made from the soil of Karbala.

Holy Thursday celebrates the institution of the Eucharist as the true body and blood of Jesus Christ and the institution of the sacrament of the priesthood. Thursday, December 12, 2024 A service ...

City tour operator stuck in Damascus, Syria, pleads for help; embassy tells mid-day they are arranging a special aircraft to ...

And it has a huge Indian diaspora. And regular stream of Indian Shias who visit the holy sites of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq.

Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine blessing, who called himself the living water, and who, with water, established Baptism for our sake as the ...

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Mourning processions will be taken out in various cities and towns across country to pay homage to martyrs of Karbala. Additional measures have been taken for security of processions.

An Israeli bomb hangs suspended in air, caught in a split-second image of a suburb in Beirut before it slams into an ...

This week in Global Express with Neena Gopal, we turn our focus on a Syria that has all but imploded. Its President Bashar Al ...

The following is the full text of the speech delivered by Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting ...

Tehran, IRNA - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that the events unfolding in ...

But both sects regard the Koran as their holy book, and both teach the five ... and the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Ali’s son Hussein, in Karbala. After Saddam took power in 1979, Shiite ...