All Stories: Friday prayers

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday prayers and deliver a public sermon after five years. A large crowd attended the Friday prayers...

Asim Azhar said the beautiful thing was that people from all sects came together & prayed.

RIYADH: Thousands of people attended Friday prayers at Masjid-al-Haram and Masjid e Nabvi (SAW), following a decision from Saudi Arabia to lift all COVID...

Sindh government officially announced earlier in the day that prayer congregations were henceforth allowed and worshipers will not have to deal with undue hindrances

It advised discouraging the presence of children and elderly people during the Friday prayers as they are more vulnerable to the virus.

The Indian government shut down internet and phone lines, and flooded the Muslim-majority region with security forces to back its August 5 move.

The explosion took place in a Madrasa of Kuchlak town of Quetta during prayers.

Areas around the mosques remained cordoned off by police, but the spokesman said they were working "to allow the Muslim community back into the mosque

SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the authorities did not allow carrying out Ashura processions in Srinagar on Friday, after subjecting the mourners to brute force...

JERUSALEM: Israeli police said they were barring men under 50 from entering Jerusalem's Old City for Friday Muslim prayers as tensions rose over new...

PESHAWAR: Prayer leader of the grand mosque of Kaaba is set to arrive in Pakistan today and will lead Friday prayers at a congregation of...

SRINAGAR: At least two Kashmiris were killed on Friday in a gun battle in northern Indian-held Kashmir as tensions along the de facto border...

PESHAWAR: A curfew was imposed in the village of Butmaina and adjoining areas, where security forces also launched search operation after a suicide bomber killed 28 people and wounded dozens more as they attended Friday prayers at a mosque in a north-western Pakistani tribal area, officials said.