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The election of Argentine Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church, deserves both our congratulations and our reflection for the future of Muslim-Christian coexistence and dialogue.

The Japanese Prime Minister has invited diplomats of Muslim nations to the meal that breaks the fast imposed by Ramadan. The purpose of the meeting is "to promote collaboration between Japan and the Arab world."...

The Dubai International Holy Quran Award has chosen the Grand Imam of Egypt s Al Azhar Al Sharif, Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al Tayyeb, to be the Islamic Personality of the 17th edition of the Award.

Known as the holiest month of the year, Ramadan is a time of more than just fasting. It’s a time of overall selflessness and reflection. The 30-day religious observance — held from new moon to new moon — has already begun, and ...

A groundbreaking new awards ceremony, The Music of Muslim Origin & Media Awards 2013 (the MOMOs), will celebrate the achievements of Muslim artists, entertainers and media professionals later this year.

This week, with the start of Ramadan, Muslims from Indonesia to Michigan began fasting from sunrise to sunset in observance of one of the religions' primary holidays. But what happens in places where the sun never sets because the country is too far north? ...

The Islamic Defense Front (FPI) announces attacks on "sinful" bars and locales during Islam's holy month. The police sequester and send in smoke drinks and DVDs, in an atmosphere of increasing intolerance. IDF Leader: "Our activists on the streets of the capital, will ensure compliance with the rules." High alert among religious minorities and non-Orthodox Muslims.

Dr. Mansoor Qureshi of Superior Township said that he and other Muslims try to improve themselves every Ramadan. “Every year, we want to be a better human being by the end of the month,” said Qureshi, with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Center in Rochester Hills. “It’s kind of like a ...

Our customs, whether personal or cultural, should never be mistaken for religious principles. Upholding them is not how we worship and obey our Lord! Moreover, our customs are not the natural way upon which Allah has created us and expects us to live.

The festival is celebrated by telling the story of how the Prophet Muhammad was visited by two archangels while he was asleep, who purified his heart and filled him with knowledge and faith....

Under the country's Religious Affairs Directorate, 100 scholars worked together, inspired by Christian Biblical exegeses, to re-interpret some of Muhammad's sayings in light of today's society.

The intellectual died in Mumbai at the age of 74 after a long illness. A Muslim who was a friend of AsiaNews, he carried out a relentless fight "against all forms of religious bigotry."

There are two Islamic reforms that are urgently needed: to transform the attitudes of Muslims regarding apostasy, and to promote the legitimacy of a secular state that does not claim to enforce Shari'a as state law or policy. Both reforms, crucially, must be supported by an Islamicargument to make...

For the inn's manager, Islamists can "better express themselves" now that men and women are segregated, booze is banned and photos of Shakira and Elvis Presley have been removed...

Numerous Muslim organizations across the United States have condemned the heinous bombing attacks that took place on Monday at the Boston Marathon, and they expressed their sympathy for the victims and their families. The attacks left three people dead and at least 140 injured. Many Muslim...

It is a rule of Allah over His creatures that whoever takes the way that leads to the success of his life of this world and its pleasure shall attain whatever Allah has destined for him of this world and whoever takes the way that leads to the success of his hereafter and the Paradise, Allah will make ...

"'O Messenger of Allah ! What right has the wife of one among us got over him?' He said: 'It is that you shall give her food when you have taken your food, that you shall clothe her when you have clothed yourself, that you shall not slap her on the face, nor revile her, nor desert her except within the house.'"

The Qur'an expresses the equality of the works of the sexes and the oneness of origin of the sexes in the following verses. "And their Lord answereth them, 'I will not suffer the work of him among you that worketh, whether of male or female, to be lost. The one of you is the issue of the other."...

One of the guiding principles that the earliest Muslim scholars lived by and which they instilled in their students is that the way to develop one’s opinion and explore the opinions of others is through diligent study and meticulous research.

Mawlid, also known as Mawlid an-Nabī or Birthday of The Prophet, is an Islamic Feast to commemorate the birthday of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Muslims in the world observe Mawlid on the month of Rabi’ al-awwal based on Islamic calendar.

As a young man, Muhammad worked as a camel driver between Syria and Arabia. Soon he established a career managing caravans on behalf of merchants. Through his travel first with his uncle and later in his career, Muhammad came into contact with people of many nationalities and faiths, including Jews, Christians and pagans.

British Muslims acknowledge a common misunderstanding of evolution but still differ about how to reconcile faith with science...

spent a few years of my life researching Muhammad’s life, teaching, and legacy. I would like to share an excerpt from the resulting book, titled Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters that gives particular insight in this regard

Now what I mean to emphasise here is that the design of the Almighty Who has created the soul from the body with His perfect power appears to be that the second birth of the soul should also take place through the body. The movements of the soul follow the movements of the ...

It was the theme of the eighth Colloquium of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and the Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation. The meeting was held in Rome from 19 to 21 November under the joint presidency of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the PCID, and of Mohammad Bagher Korramshad, president of the ICRO.

O Winebringer, the sun is up. Fill my goblet full of wine. Hurry, for night will come, and then we’ll have to sleep.

Let’s offer flowers, pour a cup of libation, split open the skies and start anew on creation. If the forces of grief invade our lovers’ veins, cupbearer and I will wash away this temptation.

Another point to raise here is that even if theologians from the three faiths could agree on the central meaning of the double love-commandment, there would still be enormous practical differences to consider when it comes to putting into effect these commandments in the concrete, here-and-now reality of plural societies.

Muslim-Christian relations are 1,400 years old but within that long history there has never yet been an initiative like this: on the occasion of this year’s Eid, the end of the month of fasting, 138 Muslim religious leaders and scholars signed and published an ‘Open Letter and Call’.

During the Hajj, Muslims remember and commemorate the trials and triumphs of the Prophet Abraham. The Qur'an describes Abraham as follows: "Surely Abraham was an example, obedient to Allah, by nature upright, and he was not of the polytheists. He was grateful for Our bounties. We chose him and guided him unto a right path. We gave him good in this world, and in the next he will most surely be among the righteous." (Qur'an 16:120-121)