The honorariums for the religious leaders were earlier introduced to support their socio-economic standing, as per a ...

Clerics face death threats for promoting family planning in country where one in 50 women dies of causes related to pregnancy On a crisp autumn morning in northern Afghanistan, a group of imams in ...

The Islamic Center of New England has always been led by imams born outside America. The two-campus mosque would like to change that, but it’s proving harder than leaders had thought. The ICNE’s ...

The imams, and the way they were arrested, became for a time the symbol of the post-9/11 national nervousness about Middle Easterners on airplanes and for the allegation that you could get arrested ...

His Majesty King Abdullah met a select group of imams and preachers earlier this week to emphasise their importance in teaching and sending the correct message of Islam, based on tolerance towards ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. In fact, these scholars sacrificed ...

It is 5:50 in the morning, and dark shadows scurry through narrow alleys to the mosque, as the call to prayer echoes from a minaret in Kaifeng. This city in central China's Henan province has an ...

When Sheik Ahmed Dewidar, 40, arrived in New York from Egypt in the mid-1990s, he led prayers at a mosque in the basement of a small office building on 44th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

An attorney said Tuesday that some Muslim religious leaders wearing traditional Arab garb were humiliated and embarrassed when they were wrongly kicked off two commercial flights as they sought to ...

Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said. The ...

A new online magazine has been launched with the aim of "reclaiming the internet" from extremists. Haqiqah, external - "the truth" or "the reality" - has been created by British Muslim scholars who ...