Muslim gathering ends with prayers for peace
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Nearly 2 million Muslims from around the world have ended their three-day annual prayer for global peace and harmony outside the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Pilgrims and a new  Palestinian leadership celebrated Christmas in the town of  Jesus's birth with prayers for peace on Saturday, lifted by  fresh hope following Yasser Arafat's death.
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MILWAUKEE - An estimated 5,000 Muslims gathered for communal prayers at the Midwest Airlines Center to begin celebration of the Eid al-Fitr, which marked the end of the religion&#39;s holy month of Ramadan.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Muslims and Christians joined together on Christmas Eve in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, holding their breath that the festive season would be peaceful and possibly the start of a new dawn.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The authorities announced a nationwide ban on all political and religious meetings except Friday Prayers after a car bombing early Thursday in the central city of Multan killed 40 people and wounded at least 100.
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Thousands attend the funeral of a Pakistani cleric who died in controversial circumstances.
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In a gesture to Muslims, the State Department on Thursday set up a prayer room for some 150 guests invited to dinner by Secretary of State Colin Powell to end their daylight Ramadan fast.
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Thousands of British Muslims gathered Sunday evening for a charity peace concert dubbed "Muslim Live 8" to raise money for victims of Sudan's long-running Darfur conflict.
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Filipino Muslims celebrated Saturday, November 13, `Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, with mass prayer and festivities.
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Muslim leaders have appealed for calm at weekly prayers, in a bid to defuse tensions over the arrests of nine suspects behind an alleged &quot;Iraq-style&quot; kidnap and beheading plot.
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Thousands of pilgrims and a new Palestinian leadership celebrated Christmas in the town of Jesus&#39;s birth yesterday with prayers for peace after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Iraqi police say an agreement on ending the violence in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf has been reached.
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Foreign ministers from seven key Muslim states gathered in the Pakistani capital for talks on a new Islamic initiative to end the turmoil in the Middle East.
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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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Hundreds of thousands of Muslims assembled Thursday on the banks of a river near the Bangladeshi capital for one of the faith's largest gatherings.
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Leaders from the Muslim community hold a special meeting to thrash out a new declaration on tackling Islamic extremism.
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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.