{"id":382361,"date":"2018-10-25T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-countdown-to-arbaeen-worlds-largest-islamic-pilgrimage\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:03:52","slug":"presstv-countdown-to-arbaeen-worlds-largest-islamic-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-countdown-to-arbaeen-worlds-largest-islamic-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Countdown to Arba\u2019een: World\u2019s largest Islamic pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Millions of black-clad pilgrims from across the world are converging on the holy Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Day of Arba\u2019een, which marks 40 days since the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shia Imam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Large groups of mourners, most of them Iranians, are traveling on foot toward the holy city to take part in the largest annual Islamic gathering\u00a0on earth.<\/p>\n<p>They are set to reach Karbala\u00a0\u2014 where Imam Hussein\u2019s shrine is located \u2014 on October 30.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of security forces have been deployed along the routes leading to the holy city.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20181025\/2c642b64-a300-4669-a5d9-426097a47ea4.jpg\" width=\"550\"\/><figcaption>Iranian pilgrims head toward the shrine of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shia Imam, in the holy city of Karbala on October 23, 2018, to mark Arba\u2019een, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of the Imam. (Photo by Fars news agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arba\u2019een, meaning \u201cthe fortieth\u201d in Arabic, is observed 40 days after Ashura, the tenth day of the lunar calendar month of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/25\/578056\/Iraq-Karbala-Arbaeen-Imam-Hussein\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of black-clad pilgrims from across the world are converging on the holy Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Day of Arba\u2019een, which marks 40 days since the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shia Imam. Large groups of mourners, most of them Iranians, are traveling on foot toward the holy city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}