Sottal
The twelfth and last month of the lunar calendar is traditionally known as Sottal in Korea. Sottal is a thirty-day period beginning between mid-December and the end of January and ending on the...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Millions of Muslims in Indonesia - the world's
most populous Muslim country - will begin fasting together this year
for the holy month of Ramadan, local med...
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Iran has closed several border crossings with Iraq ahead of the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, the country's state television reported Sunday.The report, citing the government in Tehran, said the cros...
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Since smoking is among the activities that faithful Muslims deny themselves from sunup to sundown during Ramadan, the holy month that began Thursday, Muslim doctors are suggesting that they build o...
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Since smoking is among the activities that faithful Muslims deny themselves from sunup to sundown during Ramadan, the holy month that began Thursday, Muslim doctors are suggesting that American Mus...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwanese on Sunday celebrated the arrival of the
Ghost Festival to appease the spirits of the dead with noisy
performances and solemn prayers, hoping ghosts ...
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A suicide truck bomber blew himself up near a college and a ration office in a mainly Shiite area of the capital Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, officials said, a day after car bombs devastate...
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Norio Akihira's wife Etsuko, who died last year after a long
struggle against illness, is buried under a cherry blossom tree
according to her wish, which was inspired by the poem written by w...
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Thunderous explosions and dense smoke swirled through central Baghdad on Monday when three car bombs ripped apart a crowded marketplace in a Shiite neighborhood, setting off secondary explosions an...
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