After 37 years in America, Cerritos physician Ridha Hajjar can recite a history of tough times for Shia Muslims, who predominate in places such as Iraq -- where they have long been shut out of power - ...
Taking their positions side by side, in multiple rows, a few hundred Shia and Sunni Muslims offered their Eid al-Adha prayers together after which they met with local Hindu, Sikh and Christians. "In ...
Ask Rodwan Saleh if he is a Sunni or a Shia and his reply comes quickly. "I am a Muslim," says Saleh, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, an umbrella organization that includes both ...
SRINAGAR: Huge crowds of mainly Shia Muslims gathered after Friday prayers in various places across the Kashmir Valley and ...
Prominent Muslim leader still continues to draw crowds after his departure from the Islamic Center Imam Al-Qazwini says he raised more than $5 million while he was at the Islamic Center of America ...
An ancient religious divide is helping fuel a resurgence of conflicts in the Middle East and Muslim countries. Struggles between Sunni and Shia forces have fed a Syrian civil war that threatens to ...
Every year on the tenth day of the holy month of Muharram, the first on the Islamic lunar calendar, Shia Muslims show a distinctive face of Islam, one that sees spirituality in passion and rituals ...