Ashura, one the holiest days for Shias, is the 10th day of the first month of the Arabic calendar. It's a lunar calendar, so it varies every year in relation to Gregorian dates, but this year, it was ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of pilgrims are in the Iraqi city of Karbala for Ashoura, the holy day on which Shiite Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet ...

(RNS) — Whether Muslims mark the day by flagellating or fasting, the solemn Islamic holiday of Ashura is not for the faint of heart. Let us ’Splain. The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying ...

President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, visited the shrines of Imam Hussain and Hazrat Abbas in Karbala. Governor of Karbala ...

Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world. Credit... Supported by ...

Presented by Lincoln Center Festival 2002 at Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, NYC, July 17–21. By attending only the last of the three Iranian Ta'ziyehs at the Lincoln Center Festival, I missed the ...

December 2025 - President Asif Ali Zardari paid respects at the holy shrine of Hazrat Imam Hussain (R.A.), offered nawafil prayers ...

SCRANTON – In his more than five decades teaching at the University of Scranton, Riaz Hussain set the chalkboard standard. Hussain, Ph.D., began teaching at the university in 1967, and will retire at ...