By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer – Fri Aug 13, 6:12 am ET NEW YORK – The lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays is creating a potential for misunderstandings or worse in a
Some of the world’s most prominent Muslim leaders are joining a series of webcasts highlighting the life of Prophet Mohammed during the fasting month of Ramadan, which begins Wednesday. The effort,
By Alison Lake This essay is the first in a series about religious conversion. If you’d like to submit your story of religious conversion, email onfaith@washingtonpost.com. I. THE CONVERSION STORY
JUDAISM AND Islam developed with only marginal reference to Christianity, but Christianity’s evolution has been entangled with the two other monotheisms — as essential foils. That has nowhere been more
CHARSADDA, Pakistan — As public anger rises over the government’s slow and chaotic response to Pakistan’s worst flooding in 80 years, hard-line Islamic charities have stepped into the breach with a
Details emerged yesterday of the arrest of EDL members in Dorset on suspicion of being involved in a plot to bomb a mosque in Bournemouth. Six men and one woman
A Unique Chinese Tradition: In Kaifeng, there are 16 women’s mosques, one-third the number of mosques for males. Shui Jingjun, of the Henan Academy of Social Sciences and co-author of a book on the phenomenon, says that so far there are no women’s mosques in other countries. In most of the Muslim world, women pray behind a partition or in a separate room, but in the same mosque as men.
On the eve of tomorrow’s Bastille Day celebrations, there is more revolution in the air in France and this time the ringleader is a flamboyant Muslim businessman called Rachid Nekkaz.
Here’s something that could have world religious leaders (especially the Roman Catholic Church) celebrating: leading experts on HIV/AIDS push for abstinence as a part of the solution. What’s more, they
CEDAR RAPIDS – Police believe that vandals busted five windows at a Cedar Rapids mosque overnight. Nothing was missing from the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids, 2999 First Ave. SW,
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