Shia

Hundreds of Shia Muslims gathered in Piraeus, south of Athens, to mark the day of Ashura, the tenth day of in the Islamic calendar. The ritual involved self-flagellation, hitting oneself with a whip as part of a religious ritual, as is common in...

A group of Muslims will carry out a protest outside Saudi Arabia's embassy in Athens on Wednesday, in response to the recent execution of a Shiite cleric by Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, had been an outspoken critic of the Sunni...