Posts Tagged ‘Eid’
Desperate Rohingya Mark Eid In Indonesia Limbo
Rohingya refugee Abdul Aziz was in high school when he first fled to Indonesia, but four years on, he remains in limbo, desperately missing home at the start of Eid al-Fitr festivities. The 19-year-old, and thousands like him, languish at temporary shelters in the western Aceh province, after escaping squalid conditions in a refugee camp…
Read MoreSyrians Rejoice During First Eid After Assad’s Fall
Eid al-Fitr in Syria was charged with newfound joy this year, as thousands freely celebrated the holiday for the first time after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. From the early morning hours, crowds of men, women and children flocked to pray at Damascus’s historic Umayyad Mosque in the Old City. “This is the first time…
Read MorePrayers And Tears For Eid In Quake-hit Mandalay
Hundreds of grieving Muslims gathered for Eid prayers in the street in Mandalay on Monday, the death and destruction of Myanmar’s huge earthquake casting a pall of anguish over the occasion. The watching women were the first to weep. A tear, a sniffle, a cry. The emotion spread among hundreds of men lined up in…
Read MoreGaza Rescuers Report Deadly Strikes Although Clashes Slow For Eid
Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 13 people in central Gaza, the civil defence agency in the Hamas-run territory said, although fighting has largely subsided as Muslims mark Eid al-Adha. An Israeli announcement at the weekend of a daily “pause” of military activity to facilitate aid flows coincided with the Muslim holiday and has…
Read MoreLull In Gaza Fighting As Biden Urges Truce In Eid Message
Israel struck Gaza on Monday and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory’s south, but fighting has largely subsided after a day of relative calm and as Muslims marked Eid al-Adha. In a holiday message late Sunday, US President Joe Biden called for the implementation of a ceasefire plan he outlined last month, saying it…
Read MoreHajj Pilgrims ‘Stone The Devil’ As Muslims Mark Eid Al-Adha
Pilgrims on Sunday performed the last major ritual of the hajj, the “stoning of the devil”, in western Saudi Arabia as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. As one of the world’s largest annual religious gatherings wound down, Amman announced that at least 14 Jordanian pilgrims had succumbed to an “extreme heat…
Read MoreSenegalese Eye Elegance For Eid At Half The Price
In a second-hand shop in the suburbs of Senegal’s capital, Seynabou Sarr is inundated with orders days before West Africa’s largest Muslim festival of Tabaski. Sarr, 30, constantly answers calls while showing customers second-hand boubous — a traditional robe worn by both men and women at religious or ceremonial occasions. Tabaski — marked by most…
Read MoreAhmadis In Pakistan Say Intimidated Ahead Of Eid Al-Adha Feast
Pakistanis from the minority Ahmadi community say they are under increasing pressure from authorities and Islamist groups ahead of the Eid al-Adha celebrations on Monday. The Ahmadiyya sect, considered heretics by fundamentalist groups, has been persecuted for decades in Pakistan but threats and intimidation have risen in recent years. “Eid is supposed to be a…
Read MoreI.Coast Relies On Livestock From Crisis-hit Sahel For Eid
At a muddy market in a city district in Ivory Coast, hundreds of animals are lined up to be sacrificed for this Sunday’s Muslim festival of Eid. An overwhelming majority of the livestock at the market in Adjame in Abidjan come from the Sahel — a region shaken by crises that are disrupting supplies to…
Read MoreMoo-sage: Indonesia Salon Gets Cows In Shape For Eid Sacrifice
Under a highway in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, a brown cow stood calmly as masseur Sumarwan got to work, clenching his fist to beat the animal’s legs and help it relax ahead of its sacrifice. The two-year-old cow was receiving a unique rub-down to keep it in good condition before its sale for the Islamic…
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