Shiite Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century martyrdom of a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. Imam Hussein bin Ali’s death in the ...

Muharram, the first and one of the holiest months in the Islamic calendar, marks the beginning of the Hijri New Year. The date is traditionally determined by the sighting of the moon, often causing ...

Ashura is a profoundly significant day in the Islamic calendar, observed on the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Muharram marks the beginning of the Islamic New ...

Mgr Theodore Mascarenhas, secretary of the Bishops' Conference (CBCI), sent a message to Muslims for the Shia observance in the holy month of Muharram. In India, Christians and Muslims live in peace ...

The Masjid-e-Nakhoda Markazi Rooyat-e-Hilal Committee in its meeting in Nakhoda Masjid on Thursday (June 26), unanimously declared that the first day of Muharram-Ul-Haram will begin from June 27 ...

Karachi, Sep 20 (PTI) In this bustling metropolis of Pakistan, taziyas made by Hindus in the courtyards of Hindu temples are a prominent part of the Ashura procession taken out on the ninth and 10th ...