Prayer

A Greek-American is among the 12 victims of the shooting that erupted in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, late on Wednesday, US network ABC reported on Friday.

Twenty-seven-year-old Telemachus Orfanos was a former Navy SEAL and had survived the Las Vegas mass shooting last year.

The life of a teen in western Turkey has changed since finding radioactive material, which he had thought were prayer beads. 

A group of people from the Alperen Hearths, an ultranationalist youth organization linked to the right-wing nationalist Great Union Party (BBP), on Dec. 11 recited the ezan (Muslim call to prayer) and performed prayers inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum

On November 10, Muslims laid their prayer mats on a road in the northern Parisian suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne. They were met with a banner held aloft by local politicians, led by right-wing Mayor Remi Muzeau, which read: “Stop illegal prayers in the streets.”

Pope Francis acknowledged that he had fallen asleep as he prayed. He said, however, that this is one of the many ways to honor God's name, the press reported.

"I, too, when I pray, sometimes fall asleep," the Pope said with a smile in an interview with Italian Catholic television Tu Wu 2000.

Footage from the western province of İzmir showing a man halting a tram by performing prayers on a tram line has gone viral on social media.

Aysu Tuna, the machinist of the tram, told the Doğan News Agency that she stopped her vehicle and waited for the man to complete his prayers.

The head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has warned the country's youth regarding "short and unnecessary expressions" on social media and the internet, urging them to avoid any kind of image and text that "would take over their minds" on mobile devices.

The Serbian Orthodox Church has offered a prayer to God with the goal of stopping the rain and the floods in Serbia, the SPC website has said.

"Lord, You who gather the clouds from the ends of the land, stop it with your commandment and send fair weather to the land," the text of the prayer reads, and adds:

Days after forming a commission to monitor the renovation of a prayer room inside the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) campus as well as disciplinary measures to be taken by the Rector's Office against students who allegedly physically assaulted a group of students performing prayers, the president of Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) has said the situation required legal action if t

Upon instruction by the president of Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK), a commission has been formed in order to monitor the renovation of a prayer room inside the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) campus as well as disciplinary measures to be taken by the Rector's office against students who allegedly physically assaulted a group of students while they were performing prayers.