{"id":3513,"date":"2016-12-07T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/atabat\/3513-millionsof-pilgrims-flock-to-holy-samarra-to-mark-imam-hassan-al-askary-s-martyrdom-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:05:12","slug":"millionsof-pilgrims-flock-to-holy-samarra-to-mark-imam-hassan-al-askary-s-martyrdom-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/atabat\/3513-millionsof-pilgrims-flock-to-holy-samarra-to-mark-imam-hassan-al-askary-s-martyrdom-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Millionsof pilgrims flock to holy Samarra to mark Imam Hassan al-Askary\u2019s martyrdom anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Millions of pilgrims from all around the world are flocking to the holy city of Samarra to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam al-Hassan al-Askary, peace be upon him.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Millions of pilgrims from all around the world are flocking to the holy city of Samarra to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam al-Hassan al-Askary, peace be upon him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The pilgrimage is ongoing amid a wide dispersion of security forces in addition to the popular mobilization forces to secure the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Sheikh AbdulGhafar al-Maliki, head of the shrine\u2019s Religious Affairs Department, confirmed that millions of pilgrims from all around the world are mourning the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hassan al-Askary, peace be upon him, in his holy shrine in Salah al-Din province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Al-Maliky added that the security forces and popular mobilization are scattered around and inside the city to ensure high levels of security to the pilgrims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">It is worth mentioning that a large number of transportation vehicles were available to transfer the pilgrims inside and outside of the city, in addition to the Husseini service units set up on the roads leading to the holy shrine that provide various services to the pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of pilgrims from all around the world are flocking to the holy city of Samarra to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam al-Hassan al-Askary, peace be upon him. \u00a0 \u00a0 Millions of pilgrims from all around the world are flocking to the holy city of Samarra to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam al-Hassan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[204,245,118],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atabat","tag-askariyain-holy-shrine","tag-pilgrims","tag-samarra"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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