31.   Earlier five assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles stormed a small Shiite mosque located in a house in the eastern district.

32.   The processions will culminate at sunset at Shiite mosques.

33.   Violence flared Friday for the third week in a row outside Shiite mosques in Bahrain during weekly prayers.

34.   Violence had flared Friday for the third week in a row outside Shiite mosques in Bahrain during weekly prayers.

35.   Picture Pakistani officials vow further crackdown on banned sectarian outfits, as they warn of a rising threat from Sunni Muslim extremists blamed for a Shiite mosque massacre.

36.   Police said the gunmen opened fire outside a Shiite mosque soon after worshippers from the minority community were returning after their night prayers.

37.   Police said extra security had been posted around Sunni and Shiite mosques in the Punjab capital Lahore and other places known as hotbeds of sectarian unrest.

38.   Riot police attacked thousands of Shiite Moslems at Friday prayers in Manama after authorities closed most Shiite mosques in the Bahraini capital, residents said.

39.   Reports reaching here from other cities and towns said Shiite processions starting early morning, snailed through main roads and markets to Shiite mosques.

40.   Security forces in the last few days have seized equipment from Shiite mosques, such as microphones, tape recorders, books and cassettes, residents said.