Editorial photo #13887643 Religion and Belief

Shiite Muslims Commemorate Ashura In Sayyida Zeinab

A Shiite cleric delivers a sermon from the pulpit in front of worshippers gathered to perform funeral rites at the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab in the Damascus countryside, Syria, during the peak of Ashura. Ashura is a ten-day period during which Shiite Muslims commemorate the death of Imam Hussein bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the seventh century AD. (Photo by Muhammad al-Rifai/NurPhoto)