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Authorities say the incident happened overnight between the two Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. More than 600 Shia pilgrims in Iraq have been briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems …

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By&nbspBojan Brkic Published on 11/06/2025 – 15:00 GMT+2•Updated 16:41 ADVERTISEMENT Turkistan – the city that lies in the hot, dry steppe of southwestern Kazakhstan. This ancient place of caravan sarays …

By&nbspJerry Fisayo-Bambi&nbspwith&nbspEBU Published on 08/06/2025 – 7:04 GMT+2•Updated 7:39 ADVERTISEMENT Thousands of pilgrims flocked to Șumuleu Ciuc in Romania on Saturday to partake in the liturgy for what is believed …

Published on 06/06/2025 – 1:18 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT More than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims are in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj, according to a Saudi government spokesperson. Hajj is one …

NewsFeed Thousands queued at St. Peter’s Basilica to pay respects to Pope Francis, who will lie in state for three days ahead of his funeral Saturday. Pilgrims who travelled across …

Thousands of Indian Sikhs visited Pakistan to celebrate Vaisakhi, a harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year and is mostly observed in the country’s Punjab province …

Large numbers of Orthodox faithful marched for days to reach Pochaevskaya Lavra monastery in the west of the country Hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox faithful have arrived at a major monastery …

Pakistan’s leaders expressed sorrow over the road accidents, frequent occurrences in the country largely due to poor infrastructure. At least 36 people have been killed in two separate bus accidents …

Traditionally a Catholic pilgrimage, the Camino increasingly draws the spiritual but not religious. ADVERTISEMENT In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an …