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Report: Iran suspends talks with Saudi after mass execution
By Amir Vahdat — March 14, 2022
(AP) — Some activists believe the killings included more than three dozen Shiites, the majority sect of Islam in Iran.
‘Praying to the West’ offers look at America’s diverse Muslim communities
By Joseph Hammond — November 25, 2021
(RNS) — Omar Mouallem's new book looks at 13 mosques across North and South America and how Muslims developed their identity on the continents.
Religion in the classroom: Where the faithful and the ACLU can agree
By Stephen Mansfield — June 7, 2019
(RNS) — A Pew poll from 2010 found that a majority of Americans cannot name the first book of the Bible but can provide the names of the four Beatles.
Saudi-backed interfaith center boosted by crown prince’s surprising reforms
By Tom Heneghan — March 9, 2018
VIENNA (RNS) — Change in the Desert Kingdom has helped establish it as a serious player in interfaith dialogue.
The ’Splainer: What is Laylat al-Qadr, Muslims’ ‘Night of Destiny’?
By Aysha Khan — June 20, 2017
(RNS) It's the holiest night of the year for Muslims.
Attackers bomb Ayatollah Khomeini tomb and Parliament; Saudis blamed
By Reuters — June 7, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) The attacks are the first claimed by ISIS, a hard-line Sunni Muslim militant group, inside the Shiite Muslim country.
Christian heritage found ransacked in monastery retaken from Islamic State
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 21, 2016
KHIDIR ILYAS, Iraq, (Reuters) - The history pages of Iraq's Christian community lie in charred fragments on the floor of a fourth-century monastery near Mosul which Islamic State militants ransacked during a two-year occupation that ended over the weekend.
Islamic State group claims attack that kills dozens at Shiite mosque in Kabul
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 21, 2016
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens on Monday in an explosion at a crowded Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital, officials said. It was the third major attack on minority Shiites in the city since July.
In this part of India, Sunnis and Shiites show the world a different way to pray
By Akhtar Ali — September 17, 2016
LUCKNOW, India (RNS) The prayer took place in a Shiite shrine but was led by a Sunni imam as part of an initiative by a volunteer group called Shoulder to Shoulder.
Report: Islamic State lost quarter of its Iraq, Syria territory in 18 months
By RNS staff — July 10, 2016
BEIRUT (Reuters) The territory controlled by ISIS shrank from 35,000 square miles in January 2015, six months after it declared a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, to 26,370 square miles, the research firm said.
Attack on Saudi Shiite mosque kills four
By Reuters — January 29, 2016
DUBAI -- Security forces prevented two suicide bombers from entering the mosque, where one blew himself up, killing four. Security forces exchanged fire with the second man and arrested him.
Shiite cleric’s execution jeopardizes regional security (ANALYSIS)
By Raza Ahmad Rumi — January 8, 2016
(RNS) Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in a regionwide power struggle that is exacerbating the historic Sunni-Shiite split.
Iraqi Shiites protest Saudi execution of cleric
By Reuters — January 4, 2016
Iraqi Shiites marched in Baghdad and southern cities. At least two Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and two people killed.
Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shiite cleric ignites protests, threats, international outrage
By Reuters — January 2, 2016
The U.S. State Department said killing Nimr al Nimr, a critic of the strict Wahhabi school of Islam favored in the Saudi kingdom, "risks exacerbating sectarian tensions."
PHOTOS: The Shiite pilgrimage Arbaeen
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 3, 2015
(RNS) Drawing an estimated 17 million pilgrims, the Shiite ritual known as Arbaeen dwarfs even the hajj. Arbaeen marks the end of the 40-day mourning period after the anniversary of the seventh-century slaying of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, which engendered the Sunni-Shiite schism.
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