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By Katie Masters
“The Muslim Students Association is about being a presence and a resource for students on campus,” said Khasim Jafri, the president of the MSA.
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By Thomas J. Morrisey
A Michigan State University professor is creating a digital archive of the stories of Muslims in Senegal and Ghana.
By Katie Masters
As technology advances and the need arises, Global Deaf Muslim gains members and the tools needed to help deaf Muslims adapt to the world of the hearing.
By Dan Redford
The Israeli-Palestinian sparks debate on college campuses across the nation.
By Sophia Wangungu
Ever since he took office early in the year President Barrack Obama has been working to straighten all issues that had been "messed up" by previous regimes.
By Courtney Bowerman
Despite historic political and religious strife in India, Hindu and Muslim students in America manage look past their differences.
By Yue Xu
Using Islamic websites to practice and communicate beliefs has become a popular way in Islamic world.
By William Green
Pride in a child does not happen naturally; it is learned,
By Khadija Ghani
Anti-Taliban sentiments have been simmering under the surface of Pakistani society ever since the influx of Taliban militants appeared in the Northwest Frontier
By Jyoti Singh
Being an attack from one side doesn't mean is the curse for whole nation.We have to fight against terrorism but not by discriminating people especially muslim.
Discriminating muslims,or other community is not the way to solve the problem.
By Abdi Latif Dahir
The governments of Pakistan and Somalia announced this year that they had reached a deal with their opponents to accept a system of Islamic law. However, the implementation of the Sharia law is as diverse depending on the group enforcing it. This article tries to harmonize this outlook with what the traditional teachings of Islam has to say about this.
By Lavender Ouma
THE PRESENT STRUGGLES IN CHRISTIANITY
By Akanksha Saxena
Racial profiling of Muslims -a phenomenon world over
By Carleen McGillick
With the schools of the city of Tempe as a microcosm for the nation at large, this investigative article covers the inclusion or exclusion of religious holidays in elementary school curriculum and activities. The article includes voices from the local public school district, a local non-religiously-affiliated private school and a local parochial school to round out the perspective.
By Brooke Skorupan
Breathing life back into Regent Theatre, Gateway City Church is establishing a community through their outreach programs both nationally and internationally.
By Brooke Skorupan
Regent Theatre, a popular cinema in Wollongong since 1954 has reopened its doors to the local community – and also reaching out to an orphanage in Vietnam.
By Harumi Gondo
Tokyo, Japan, August 26 — As a young child I booked forward to Thursdays, the day my mom would bring home Japanese cartoon videos. I looked forward especially to “Japan’s yolk Tales,” which would present Japan’s many popular folk tales in animated form.
By Julie Kawamura
A response to ideas from Mark Juergensmeyer's Terror in the Mind of God.
By deena guzder
NEW YORK–Laxmi Berwa was taunted mercilessly as a young boy in his village in Rajasthan, India, by kids in higher Hindu castes. Berwa was born into the lowest caste, known as the untouchables. “The other villagers said my touch would pollute them,” he said.
By Tania Haas
ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia (originally published July 26, 2008) -- In a case that tests the tradition of sanctuary, a paralyzed man faced with a deportation order has taken refuge in a Sikh temple in this western Canadian city. In early July, just two days before Laibar Singh, 48, was to be accompanied by Canadian officials to a hospital in India, he moved into the residence of a Sikh priest on the property of the Gurdwara Kalgidhar Darbar Sahib Society.
By Tania Haas
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STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK (originally produced June 28, 2008) - Last month, two carloads of Tibetan Buddhists, many recent immigrants to New York, ventured to Staten Island's South Shore with boxes of live marine creatures. Fish, crabs, snails and lobster were purchases from a Chinatown market and were eventually released back into the sea to a chorus of Tibetan prayer.
By Courtney Bowerman
With Ramadan just over, some Muslims are already thinking about the challenges of next year's holy month in the long, hot days of summer.
By Neyaz Farooquee
With increasing religious ghettos, celebrating Diwali, Dussehra or Eid in "others' areas" makes it interesting.
By Yue Xu
A Chinese Muslim student in Michigan State University talked how she adapts to the life in MSU with the context of Islam and Chinese culture.
By Dan Redford
Cell phones and computers are not prohibited at Mecca, the holy pilgrimage site in Saudi Arabia, but some Muslims worry that such devices take away from the sanctity of the site.
By Shanley Knox
People should not have to choose between being Catholic and being sexually experimental, open or active, said Tristan Taormino, sex educator, author and adult-film director.
By Greg Perreault
A significant percentage of Muslims responded favorably to Obama’s speech in Cairo, but are cautious about whether he’ll be able to deliver on his promises.
By Shanley Knox
Although the Chinese government has said that their regulation of the Tibetan Buddhist reincarnation has been an effort to protect the purity of Tibetan religion, experts believe China is, in fact, trying to destroy the Tibetan people.
By Rashmi Singh
Vilifying on the name of religion and community is a menace to Humanity.
By Elise Jennings
Is Switzerland as neutral as it seems? Switzerland, having a vote on the banning of Minarets within the country, has had a large poster campaign in favor of ban
By Evelyn Ticona-Vergaray
From behind a podium next to a big wooden cross, the mission holder begins the service saying, “Welcome to the Church of Scientology.”
After greeting the
By Samantha Lenkic
Modern day witchcraft is becoming one of the fastest growing religions in some countries. A lot of misconception still surround this nature-based religion.
By Thomas J. Morrisey
At Michigan State's McDonel Hall, a large international student presence leads to many opportunities for cross-cultural bonding and learning.
By Muhammad Nyamwanda
I think it’s best to start with the period just after independence. The Muslim community has always been marginalized in Kenya since independence time.
By Zakia Smith
An exploration of marriage in the Islamic world.
By Joydeep Hazarika
The Kamakhya Temple is one of the oldest temples in India. Situated at the Nilachal Hill near Guwahati city in the state of Assam, it is considered as one of th
By Brooke Skorupan
Regent Theatre, a popular cinema in Wollongong since 1954 has reopened its doors to the local community – and also reaching out to an orphanage in Vietnam.
By deena guzder
MUMBAI–Growing up in Milwaukee, Wis., Jasmine Bhathena led an all-American life of Coca-Cola afternoons and slumber party weekends, but she always knew she was a little different. Bhathena never left home without wearing a soft cotton undershirt and a hand-woven wool cord—external symbols of her Zoroastrian faith. And, every evening, while her classmates were finishing their math homework or watching their favorite sitcoms, Bhathena joined her family in lighting a floating candle and reciting ancient Persian prayers as her ancestors have done for centuries in Iran where Zoroastrianism, the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, originated.
By Tania Haas
NEW YORK -- The hypnotizing rhythm of the drums leaked from the lobby to the East Village sidewalk. A number of passersby were drawn to the doorway of the small meeting room on the ground floor of the building. The group inside, seated in a circle three rows deep, appeared to be one big party with a really good sound system. But soon, the party came outside.
By Katie Masters
In 1987, there were only 50 Islamic schools around the country. Now there are an estimated 300 Islamic schools educating 45,000 students across the U.S
By Lavender Ouma
Activist al-Amin Kimathi was arrested outside a Nairobi courtroom in connection with protests calling for the release of a radical Jamaican preacher.
