Sikhs flock to Amritsar for Guru Granth Sahib anniversary
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Hundreds of thousands of Sikhs congregated in the northern Indian city of Amritsar on Tuesday for the 400th anniversary celebration of the installation of the Sikh sacred book at the religion's holiest shrine.
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Thousands of pilgrims and a new Palestinian leadership are celebrating Christmas in the town of Jesus&#39;s birth with prayers for peace after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of Indian Sikhs arrived in Pakistan yesterday to commemorate the 535th anniversary of the birth of the founder of their religion, officials said.
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MORE than 500 people attended a celebration held at the Pakistan Club last night to mark the 128th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims gathered at a temple in southern Russia Tuesday to join prayers led by the Dalai Lama, who has been allowed in the country for the first time in more than 12 years.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims reached the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Monday, the vanguard of a throng expected to peak at more than 2 million people by Tuesday, the climax of the haj pilgrimage.
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Relatives prepare to cremate around 300 Hindu pilgrims who died in a stampede at an Indian religious festival.
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Hundreds of people marched in Katmandu on Sunday, waving banners urging religious tolerance in wake of riots over the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages by Iraqi insurgents.
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Millions of Muslims across the world begin observing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims, scarred by 15 years of violence, have celebrated Eid al-Fitr, days after India announced it will reduce the number of troops in the disputed Himalayan territory.
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Tongi, Dec. 5 (PTI): Some four million pilgrims, including Bangladesh&#39;s President Iajuddin Ahmed, and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, participated today in a mass prayer at the end of the world&#39;s second largest annual Islamic meet near here.
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Thousands of tribal and Dalit Hindus are to convert to Buddhism in a mass ceremony in Mumbai.
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Several hundred Indian Sikhs staged a protest in the Himalayan region of Kashmir against a ban imposed by the French government on the wearing of religious symbols, including turbans, in schools.
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An elderly Bangladeshi Muslim man takes part in the last prayer of the &quot;Biswa Ijtema&quot; or World Islamic Congregation on the outskirts of Dhaka, December 5. Approximately four million Muslim devotees from Bangladesh and abroad raised their hands seeking
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Church congregations in north-east India are preparing to hold special services after blasts and gun attacks killed at least 56 people on Saturday.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (IPS) - On March 23, 1931, an Indian Sikh named Bhagat  Singh attained martyrdom when he was hanged by the British for  his role in the militant freedom struggle against the colonial  rulers.
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Thousands of mourners have attended funeral prayers for two of the victims of Sunday&#39;s blast at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore.