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India’s cabinet has approved an executive order to make instant divorce among Muslims, a procedure called “triple talaq”, a punishable offense, a government minister said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to woo Muslim...

For pilgrims, the clay tablets from Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslim Kerbala shrine are a blessing, an aid to prayer, even a cure for sickness. For local families, the are all that, and also a business. The tablets,...

News Hour: After a Hindu priest and his friends allegedly killed a Muslim folk singer two weeks ago, at least 200 Muslims have fled their village in Rajasthan, the police said yesterday, and are living in a shelter...

News Hour: 2 million Muslim pilgrims were performing a symbolic stoning of the devil on Friday, the riskiest part of the annual haj pilgrimage where hundreds of people were killed in a crush two years ago....

News Hour: Mosques across the state of Texas are being turned into shelters for the victims of Hurricane Harvey. The Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), which represents 21 Islamic centres in the area, has opened four of their...

News Hour: A Muslim father’s unwavering support for his teenage daughter if she chose to not wear a hijab has grabbed online attention. Lamyaa, 17, in Pennsylvania, US tweeted a screengrab of a conversation with her...

News Hour: Jewish people in a small Texas city handed Muslim worshippers the keys to their synagogue after the town’s only mosque was destroyed in a fire. The Victoria Islamic Centre burned down on Saturday and had...

Bahrain on Sunday executed three Shi’ite Muslim men convicted of killing three policemen in a 2014 bomb attack, the first such executions in over two decades, drawing condemnation from foreign officials in the region and beyond....

News Hour: A veteran ally of Angela Merkel urged Muslims in Germany on Sunday to develop a “German Islam” based on liberalism and tolerance, saying the influx of people seeking refuge, many of them Muslims, is...

News Hour: From Asia, Africa and points in between, nearly 1.5 million Muslims begin the annual hajj in western Saudi Arabia on Saturday, undeterred by a stampede which last year killed around 2,300. Tens of thousands...