Ida Khalil demonstrates how to wash and prepare a body for burial at Beit Anan Community Center in Paterson, New Jersey, Oct. 22. PATERSON, N.J. — More than a dozen women watch closely as Ida Khalil ...

A large crowd of mourners gathered on a cold morning at the NIA Masjid & Community Center in Newark for the funeral of Imam Hassan Sharif who was gunned down Wednesday at the Majid Muhammad Mosque ...

As a Muslim, this is common—where the body has to be buried within 24-72 hours to perform Janazah (funeral) prayers at the mosque. This may come across as too soon for people unfamiliar with Islamic ...

It was the day of the funeral. Yasmin Al-Zibdeh was home with her two sisters and mom, waiting for a phone call from their dad to tell them to come down to the mosque. She thought members of the ...

It's been an exhausting and traumatic time for Chicago-area rabbis Ari Hart and Hody Nemes. "Many people we know have friends who lost lives. We have family members who are kidnapped and still in Gaza ...

Some scientists have given us different ages of the earth using all sorts of technological instruments. But the only authentic knowledge of that can come from the Almighty Allah Who created the earth.

Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions that could be upsetting and disturbing. The funeral and vigil for a 6-year-old Illinois Muslim boy who was the victim of a brutal stabbing and hate ...

The fathers of three young Muslims allegedly slain by a neighbor who was angry over parking spots stood before their caskets Thursday and urged a crowd of thousands to protect others by demanding ...

PRIJEDOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Several thousand people attended a funeral service in Bosnia on Saturday for 86 Muslims who were slain by Serbs in one of the worst atrocities of the country’s 1992 ...

It just felt like the right thing to do. A 6-year-old boy, stabbed 26 times, killed before he'd barely begun to live. But he was Muslim. And police say it was enough to drive his landlord to target ...

The war in Gaza has brought Sunni and Shiite armed groups closer together in Lebanon. Many there fear that fighting on its border with Israel could drag the country into war. In Lebanon, Iran-backed ...