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 ...

File Photo: Egyptian Shias pray outside of the al-Hussein mosque to mark the festival of Ashoura, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. (Photo: AP) The historic mosque of Al-Hussein will be closed ...

Our capital of Baku boasts an incomparably beautiful Heydar Mosque, the largest Mosque in the entire South Caucasus region. Named after Heydar Aliyev – the founder of the modern Azerbaijan and its ...

THESE are unhappy times in the Middle East for relations between Islam’s two main branches, the majority Sunnis and minority Shias. The ugly sectarian undertones of the civil war in Syria, where the ...