A proposal to build a cemetery for Muslims in South Miami-Dade County was rejected by a community zoning appeals board late Thursday evening after hours of public comments. The request came from a ...

Muslims perform the Eid al-Adha morning prayer around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca. [AFP] The Islamic faith has quite firm guidelines ...

The Clapham chemical attacker was given a Muslim funeral and burial despite converting to Christianity to claim asylum in the UK. Abdul Ezedi, an Afghan national, had been at the centre of a manhunt ...

About a hundred people joined a vigil held in front of city hall in Thorold, Ont., to honour an 18-year-old woman who died in a recent car crash. They were also protesting the city's decision, at the ...

(RNS) — I wash dead bodies in my free time. With 70 other Muslim women, I volunteer to perform the last Islamic rites, a collective obligation. Someone must fulfill this duty, otherwise, we will all ...

In Nigeria, whether Muslim women attend funerals or not largely depends on regional and cultural practices, more than religious rulings alone. The question of whether Muslim women can attend burials ...

Although there appears to be some room for debate over the burial - as with many issues within the faith - a wide range of Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard ...

The Islamic faith has quite firm guidelines regarding funeral services and how long, after death, a Muslim is buried. Twaha Omar, the Imam at Masjid Ibrahim in Nakuru, says according to the Islamic ...

People sign in to for zoning meeting on a proposed cemetery for Muslims at the South Dade Regional Library in early November. This week, a board rejected the request. MATIAS J. OCNER ...

(RNS) — I wash dead bodies in my free time. With 70 other Muslim women, I volunteer to perform the last Islamic rites, a collective obligation. Someone must fulfill this duty, otherwise, we will all ...