Algeria’s president has announced plans to import a staggering 1 million sheep ahead of this year’s Eid al-Adha, the holiday ...

Algeria's president has announced plans to import 1 million sheep ahead of this year’s Eid al-Adha, aiming to stabilize ...

With the country facing years of drought and economic strife, King Mohammed VI told people they could skip the traditional ...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco asked Moroccans on Wednesday to abstain from performing the rite of slaughtering sheep on Eid al-Adha this year due to a drop in the country's herd following years of ...

OULAD SLAMA, Morocco — Sheep come running when Larbi El Ghazouani ... prepared to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, who intervened and replaced the child with a sheep.

Eid al-Adha, to take place in June, commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son on God’s command. Muslims mark the event by slaughtering sheep or goats. The meat is ...

is an annual “feast of sacrifice” in which Muslims slaughter sheep to honor a passage of the Quran in which the prophet Ibrahim prepared to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, who ...