New Delhi: Massive crowds of Shia Muslims gathered in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and worldwide on Friday to mark one of the most sacred days on their calendar, to remember the seventh-century killing of Hussein, the grand son of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. The annual commemoration, known as Ashoura, is marked on the 10th day of the month of Muharram in the lunar-based Islamic calendar. Ashoura is the culmination of a 10-day mourning period and marks the…
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