All Stories: Prayers

ISTANBUL: Thousands of Muslim worshippers descended Saturday on Istanbul's world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church that is now a museum, to demand the right to pray there, Turkish media reported.

Shab-e-Baraat (the Night of Emancipation) was celebrated by Muslims across the world on Sunday night.

Muslims across the world observed Shab-e-Mairaj (The Night of Ascension) on Wednesday night with religious fervor and zeal, ARY News reported.

The eleventh anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami is being observed across the world on Saturday (today).

KARACHI: Christmas is being celebrated by Christians across the world on Friday, ARY News reports.

LUCKNOW: Sunnis and Shias offered EId-ulAzha prayers together at a lawn in Lucknow, with many describing it as an unprecedented move for sectarian amity.

SANAA: A suicide bomber struck a mosque in Yemen's capital on Thursday in an attack targeting Shiite worshippers that killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens during holiday prayers, medics and witnesses said.

MOSUL: The Islamic State (IS) group is banning residents from performing prayers on one of the most important Muslim feasts – Eid-ul-Fitr –  claiming the practice is non-Islamic.

KOLKATA: Prayers were said at churches across India Sunday for an elderly nun who was gang-raped at a convent in an attack that has intensified anger over sexual violence and fuelled fears among beleaguered Christians.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia buried King Abdullah Friday as foreign leaders gathered in the capital for the funeral of the ruler of the world's top oil exporter and the spiritual home of Islam.

BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA: Prayer recitals and solemn visits to mass graves marked the start of mourning Friday across tsunami-hit nations for the 220,000 people who perished when giant waves decimated coastal areas of the Indian Ocean a decade ago.

JERUSALEM: Men of all ages will be allowed to attend the main weekly Muslim prayers Friday at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for the first time in "months", a police spokesman said.

MAKKAH: Millions of Hajj pilgrims after Fajar prayers are heading towards the ground of Arafat to listen the Hajj sermon and offer Zuhr and Asr prayers at tent city of Arafat.  Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdul Aziz Shaikh will give Hajj sermon during Wuqoof-e-Arafat, ARY News reports.

NAWABSHAH: A moderate intensity earthquake jolted Nawabshah on Wednesday, ARY News reports.