Picture of Day: Each year in mid-March, craftsmen clean and burnish the golden dome of Imam Reza’s (AS) holy shrine in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, in preparation to receive pilgrims in Nowruz ...

The Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi (AQR) called expanding religious outreach crucial for addressing societal issues and ...

Ferdowsi (935-1020) is buried in Toes, in Khorasan province. He penned all the ancient stories about Persia and the creation ...

By bnm Tehran bureau Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the United States during his Nowruz speech in ...

After Holy Thursday, no Mass will be celebrated again in the Church until the Easter Vigil celebrates and proclaims the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Latest news 20 years later: Terri ...

A woman pilgrim from Delhi was arrested after a loaded pistol was recovered from her possession at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district ...

Pappé breaks down contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project—and why Oct 7 exposed the impossibility of being a Zionist and a democrat.

Her real name is Masoumeh, the name of one of the Islamic imam’s daughters, whose shrine is Qom, Iran’s Shi’ite holy city ... Mohamad Reza Pahlavi, and supported the Muslim extremist ...

Holy water is also removed from the fonts in churches on Good Friday and Holy Saturday in preparation for the blessing of the water at the Easter Vigil. This removal also corresponds to those days ...