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RNS News Quiz: School debt forgiven and a televangelist biopic
By Emily Churchill — June 5, 2021
(RNS) — Test your knowledge of the week's current events in the world of religion.
In Ramadan’s spirit of hope, New York’s Muslims cautiously open mosques
By Zainab Iqbal — April 7, 2021
(RNS) — Last year, Ramadan fell in the worst of the pandemic. Still haunted by the toll of the pandemic, some mosque leaders are following the guidance of local leaders.
Coronavirus restrictions on mosques bring women to the fore
By Hind Makki — May 18, 2020
(RNS) — Sheltering in place may be giving American Muslims an opportunity to reshape our community spaces.
Born of a Muslim who overcame an immigration ban, a community celebrates its centennial
By Amjad Mahmood Khan — February 15, 2020
(RNS) — Arriving in 1920, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, one of the earliest missionaries of Islam in the United States, established a lasting example for Muslim American relations.
‘Beyond the mosque’: Seeing Islam’s diversity reflected in worship spaces
By Aysha Khan — November 4, 2019
(RNS) — Rizwan Mawani uses diverse sacred spaces as lenses through which to offer readers a primer on the expansive histories, architectures and ritual practices of Muslims around the world.
To Sri Lankan Christians, and all Christian friends: ‘May Christ rise for you’
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 21, 2019
(RNS) — When Easter Sunday becomes Good Friday, something is terribly wrong.
Tired of war, South Sudanese pray for latest peace deal
By Doreen Ajiambo — October 17, 2018
JUBA, South Sudan (RNS) — Thousands of Southern Sudanese are gathering in churches and mosques in cities and refugee camps to pray for the end of a civil war that has raged since 2013.
What Richard Dawkins doesn’t get about the Muslim call to prayer
By Rose Aslan — July 31, 2018
(The Conversation) — Richard Dawkins' tweets are not the first time the Muslim call to prayer has been misconstrued or that Muslims have been attacked for their prayer practices around the world.
After shuttering 700 churches, Rwanda proposes stricter clergy guidelines
By Fredrick Nzwili — July 11, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — After closing more than 700 churches and some mosques in March, Rwandan government officials have moved to institute guidelines for how faith groups operate in the majority-Christian East African country.
Fearing extremist violence, Egypt silences 20,000 storefront mosques
By Amr El Tohamy — May 25, 2018
CAIRO (RNS) — The Egyptian government has banned preaching at 20,000 mosques as a precautionary measure to prevent extremist violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Keen Islamic prayer activists bring a new dawn to Gaza
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 5, 2018
(AP) Fervent religious activists, urged on by Hamas, roam the streets with loudspeakers calling people to early prayers.
Nigerian clergy demand compensation for churches destroyed by Boko Haram
By Lauren Markoe — August 30, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — 'Churches that have been destroyed should be rebuilt by the state governments,' said the Rev. Felix Omobude, the national president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.
What will future houses of worship look like?
By Michael J. Crosbie — June 14, 2017
(RNS) Architecture students, reflecting on millennial spirituality, come up with new conceptions for a house of worship.
Ohio mosque is first to join sanctuary movement
By Kimberly Winston — January 23, 2017
(RNS) The move came on the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump, who made anti-immigrant rhetoric and a Muslim registry part of his campaign.
In Germany, Syrians find mosques too conservative
By RNS staff — October 31, 2016
COLOGNE, Germany — Arabic speaking mosques are often short of funds, or else supported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. Some back ultra-conservative or highly literal interpretations of Islam, such as Wahhabism or Salafism.
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