Millions of Muslims gather for Bangladesh congregation
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Muslims from around the world descended on Bangladesh on Friday for the annual Bishwa Ijtema (world congregation), the second biggest gathering of Muslims after the Haj, with troops and police maintaining tight security.
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On Muslim holidays, hundreds of faithful hoping to pray at the city's Ditib Mosque are forced to spread their prayer rugs in a nearby parking lot and follow the service on loudspeakers. The mosque holds only 600 people.
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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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About 1,000 Muslim clerics and religious scholars meeting Thursday in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of Pope Benedict XVI for making what they called "insulting remarks" against Islam.
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Thousands of Bangladeshis gathered on Friday at a memorial for intellectuals and professionals killed during the 1971 independence war amid demands for punishment of "war criminals".
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Some two thousand worshippers gathered for Christmas Eve mass in Seoul to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a festival of religious joy for many in the country.
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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.
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About 1,000 Louisville-area Muslims gathered at the Clarion Hotel off Hurstbourne Parkway yesterday to celebrate the largest festival of their religious calendar, Eid ul-Fitr.
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Tens of thousands flocked to a religious  rally in the Philippine capital's main park on Sunday in a show  of defiance against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her  supporters in the lower house of Congress.
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Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan on Sunday, protesting against the president Pervez Musharraf&#39;s plan to keep his army post.
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Some 20,000 Muslims held a "Pope,  don't come" rally in Istanbul on Sunday in a peaceful protest  against Pope Benedict's visit to Turkey this week.
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Thousands of Islamists demonstrated across Pakistan after Friday prayers against the death of a cleric in detention over suspected links to Al Qaeda and against raids on seminaries.
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Thousands of Pakistanis cheer the country's suspended chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as he travels to a lawyers' meeting.
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Reporters from The Associated Press visited mosques around the world Friday to take the pulse of the faithful at a time of upheaval in Islam. They found believers who, for all their cultural and geographical diversity, share an anger over Iraq and the Palestinians and a feeling that their religion is under threat from the West.
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Millions of Muslims prayed together for peace and harmony on a riverbank near the Bangladeshi capital on Sunday, concluding an annual assembly that is considered one of the world&#39;s largest Islamic gatherings.
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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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Close to 15,000 area Muslims thronged the Qwest Field Exhibition Center yesterday for services marking Eid-ul-Fitr. The festival of Eid marks the end of Ramadan, Islam&#39;s holy month of prayer and fasting; Hisham