Muslims Pray for Tsunami Victims in Mecca
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Pilgrims streaming into Islam's holy city for the annual hajj prayed for the 157,000 people killed in last month's tsunami that devastated southern Asia, asking God to give survivors the courage to cope.
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The BBC's Ethirajan Anbarasan finds that Muslim tsunami victims in eastern Sri Lanka fear they are being overlooked.
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BANGTAO, Thailand -- A Kuwaiti man, dressed in a white robe and turban, stepped out of his car in this devastated seaside village one day last week. He approached a young worker at an open-air volunteer center, saying he wanted to help the tsunami relief efforts, in part by giving a sizable donation.
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from around the world on Friday began a three-day annual Islamic prayer meeting outside the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, with politics banned and sermons set to call for world peace.
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A service to commemorate victims of the Asian tsunami is being held at London's Westminster Cathedral.
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Among the things Malaysia's first astronaut will be worrying about next month: How does an observant Muslim pray toward Mecca while soaring hundreds of miles above the Earth?
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Muslims must find a way to remove the cancer infecting their religion.
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from  around the world on Friday began a three-day annual Islamic  prayer meeting outside the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, with  politics banned and sermons set to call for world peace.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - As the annual pilgrimage opens in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Monday, few first-time pilgrims say they are entirely free of anxiety and confusion about the rituals they must perform.
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The first batch of Indian Kashmiri Muslims left for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, saying they would pray for friendship between India and Pakistan and peace in their troubled region.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims performed  final rites of the haj on Saturday, with many praising its  safety following fears of stampedes or al Qaeda strikes.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims spent the day in prayer on the plain of Arafat near Mecca on Tuesday, marking the climax of this season's haj pilgrimage where Iranian pilgrims managed to protest against America.
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As the evening call to prayer rang out yesterday, signaling the end of the day&#39;s fast and the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, dazed mourners wandered the grounds
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CALANG, Indonesia  - Hundreds of Indonesians prayed at mass graves in Aceh province on Wednesday to remember relatives who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami three years ago.
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MENA, Saudi Arabia  - More than two million Muslim  pilgrims arrived in the tented city of Mena Tuesday, the first  day of a haj pilgrimage marked by grief over the Asian tsunami  disaster and security fears.
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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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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.