It would certainly not be the first time the insurgents have attacked a Shia religious festival.
Although it is a religious festival, the state supports it by providing amenities, from security to sanitation.
Every autumn, at the religious festival of Dussehra, Bari Bauwa would demand that we bring all our writing implements to the Prayer Room.
Olympia was sacred to Zeus, head of the pantheon of Greek Gods and Goddesses, and the ancient Games were essentially a religious festival in his honor.
But we should not lose sight of the fact that these are traditional celebrations around a great religious festival, one of the most important in the Christian year.
Some people who staged a brief protest after his conviction were rounded up and detained ten days later, possibly to make sure they caused no trouble at the religious festival.
Non-Greeks, slaves and women were barred from competing, and, with the exception of unmarried girls, from spectating as well (unmarried girls were also allowed to participate in a footrace at a separate religious festival in honor of the Goddess Hera).
Every year in late April, the twin villages of Saloor-Dungra in the state of Uttarakhand (northern India) are marked by Ramman, a religious festival in honour of the tutelary god, Bhumiyal Devta, a local divinity whose temple houses most of the festivities.
The games were a religious festival, spectators traveling to and fro were pilgrims, and that meant protection from harm under the Panhellenic "sacred truce" not a ban on warfare but usually an effective guarantee of safe passage through war zones for passing sports fans.
One of the most important dates in the Hindu religious calendar, the festival attracts millions of participants from India and around the world, who bathe in the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati Rivers to cleanse their sins.
Part of his popularity flows from being one of the first Westerners to be initiated into the secretive Juna order of monks, the largest of the 13 powerful sects that control religious affairs at the Kumbh festival.
This national Hindu festival is also embraced by other religious denominations, including the Sikhs and Jains, with religious and regional variations in the way it is celebrated.
One of the leading figures in world Hinduism, His Holiness Swami Radhanath, who is at the festival, said he hoped it would promote religious understanding and tolerance.
According to the rules laid down in the festival program, owners are required to swear religious oaths that the stated age and lineage of their animals is correct.
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This November, a selection of the most imaginative religious spaces completed within the last 3 years will be showcased at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
"The quality of architecture is invariably high in the religion category, which I think is because communities and religious organizations are often commissioning these projects, " opines Paul Finch, World Architecture Festival program director.
The ad hoc grouping of religious, community and left-wing groups, under the umbrella of the Strangers into Citizens campaign, created a festival atmosphere in London's drenched streets.
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