Mr. Singh's comments come a day before Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf is scheduled to visit India on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer.
I, too, was in town on a pilgrimage, visiting a site that predates Abraham and Job and monotheism by some eight millennia: a vast complex of Stonehenge-style megalithic circles in the Urfa countryside.
In 2008, Lebanese TV host Ali Hussain Sibat was arrested on charges of sorcery while in Saudi Arabia on a religious pilgrimage.
In March 2000 -- on a similar biblical pilgrimage -- the Pope visited Israel's Holocaust memorial to say his church was "deeply saddened" by Christian persecution of Jews.
Torn between this unorthodox faith and a more conventionally ascetic spirituality, Rasputin set off on foot on a two-year pilgrimage around Russia and then to the Holy Land, pushing himself to the brink of starvation and sanity.
For I had traveled to the Arya Vaidya clinic it's in the state of Tamil Nadu, at the southern tip of the subcontinent, where the Bay of Bengal meets the Arabian Sea on a kind of medical pilgrimage.
One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.
On May 10, 2011, her birthday, they met in Haridwar, a Hindu pilgrimage center on the Ganga river, about an hour's drive from where she studied.
Stepping on such hallowed ground is a chance of a lifetime for fans on the annual pilgrimage.
KARBALA, Iraq (CNN) -- Crowds of Shia Muslims Wednesday chanted and danced in the streets of this holy city on the final day of a pilgrimage long suppressed under Saddam Hussein's rule.
The people of Crotone are accustomed to making a nocturnal pilgrimage in their thousands on foot to Capo Colonna to pray before a Byzantine portrait of Mary in the small chapel on the promontory.
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf is due to travel to India for the first time on Saturday for a day-long pilgrimage, officials say.
The Government Code and Cipher School in Bletchley, where Alan Turing did pioneering work on early computers, is a popular site of pilgrimage.
Pedro and Onil Castro made a daily pilgrimage from their home on Kinkel Street to the corner of West 32nd St. and Clark Avenue.
What I didn't know was that those steps -- leading to the lofty highlight of my Kumano Kodo pilgrimage -- would be on a 70-degree incline.
When John Paul died in 2005, this Popemobile was put on display in a Philippine church and became a pilgrimage destination for the country's Catholics who couldn't afford to go to the Vatican for the burial ceremony.
Around midnight, your correspondent turned on to a small road just before Fort Sumner for a pilgrimage to the grave of Billy the Kid.
More flights, especially between Europe and South Africa and from Africa to Mecca during the annual Muslim pilgrimage, the haj, have put a strain on air-traffic control: some controllers do not even answer pilots' calls.
Tens of thousands of Shiites faced potential danger on Thursday in their walk for hours, or even days, to perform an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of a much-loved Imam, or saint.
The British Museum has been a place of pilgrimage for Perry since he was a child -- though he admits to a sense of disappointment on his first visit, because the model boats in the Egyptian collection were not as shiny and new as the cars he played with at home.
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