Shia pilgrims

In Iraq's Shia heartlands, people who once voted blindly along sectarian lines are turning their ire against the Shia-led governments they say failed to ... Just an hour away from Najaf in Karbala, the holy city visited by 30 million Shia pilgrims a year, sharing power with Sunnis and Kurds is not seen as a ...

In the holy city of Najaf, home to Imam Ali's shrine and Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, there was a similar feeling of ... Just an hour away from Najaf in Karbala, the holy city visited by 30 million Shiite pilgrims a year, sharing power with Sunnis and Kurds is not seen as a ...

We are proposing an inclusive government in which everyone is represented.” Just an hour away from Najaf in Karbala, the holy city visited by 30 million Shiite pilgrims a year, sharing power with Sunnis and Kurds is not seen as a solution. “Iraq has a Shiite majority. It is natural that it be ruled by a Shiite,” ...

A 13-year-old girl from Hyderabad died on Monday during a pilgrimage in Iran when a bus that she was travelling in, met with an accident and slid off a highway. The deceased has been identified as Kulsum Fatima of Yakutpura and the bus was reported to have been carrying 18 persons from the same ...

Shiite Muslim worshippers pray at the Imam Musa al-Kadhim's mosque in the Iraqi capital northern district of Kadhimiya on April 11, 2018. (AFP photo). BAGHDAD, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Millions of Shiite pilgrims on Thursday ended their week-long pilgrimage to a holy shrine in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to ...

BAGHDAD, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Iraq security forces Wednesday killed two suicide bombers who attempted to attack Shiite pilgrims who were walking in large numbers to the holy Kadhimiyah shrine, the Iraqi military said. Acting on intelligence reports, the Iraqi forces ambushed two militants wearing ...

Currently, the major sources of income for Qom, the venue of one of the world's two major Shiite seminaries, are the pilgrims that visit the holy shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh, the sister of Imam Reza, the only Shiite imam buried in Iran, and the confectionary workshops that sell sugar candies to the pilgrims.