The 28th annual MATA FESTIVAL will run May 21-23 at DiMenna Center in NYC, featuring composers responding to Morton Feldman's ...

Across Christian denominations, Good Friday services are unlike those on most other days. They often include centuries-old, ...

The atmosphere during preparations for the Jewish festival has been unusually subdued, with people afraid to stray far from ...

Across cultures, early spring is a time to let loose and play pranks—but historians can’t agree on who invented the custom of ...

Since its modest start in 1983, Islamic banking has expanded rapidly—winning customer trust, deepening rural outreach, and commanding a significant share of deposits and investments ...

The Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ameer Ajwad, paid a courtesy visit to the headquarters of Rehlat Wa Manafe Company, the new Hajj service provider for 3,500 Sri Lankan ...

In Israel, the holiday ends on April 8. Each year, the holiday falls on different dates due to Jewish tradition abiding by a lunar calendar. The holiday is almost always entirely in April, although ...

Dhaka, March 30 -- Indices fell at both the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges on Sunday, the first trading day of the week, with most listed companies witnessing price declines.

Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over the course of a week each spring. It commemorates the Exodus of ancient ...

Jerusalem’s holiest places sit empty as missile fire disrupts Passover and Easter. On Monday, families brace for the holidays ...

, March 24 -- Trading on Bangladesh's stock markets resumed after the Eid holidays with a sharp fall in indices, as most shares declined on the Dhaka bourse.

Eid Al Adha is the second of the two main festivals of Islam, after Eid Al Fitr, and falls in the twelfth and final month of ...