Muslim devotees perform ablutions before prayers during the first phase of the three-day Biswa Ijtema, or the World Congregation of Muslims, at the banks of the Turag river in Tongi, near Dhaka ...

Thousands of people have taken part in the Akheri Munajat or the special prayer to wrap up the first phase of the Biswa Ijtema ... Abdul Matin provided the Bangla translation.

TONGI, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to listen to sermons by Islamic scholars at the Biswa Ijtema, or global ...