Majda Boteffah emigrated from Spain to the U.S. all alone. She met Miguel Barrera and they eventually married, three years ago. His large Bolivian family welcomed her as part of their family. She ...

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 ...

Muslims perform the Eid al-Adha morning prayer around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca. [AFP] The Islamic faith has quite firm guidelines ...

Hundreds of people turned out to the afternoon funeral prayer service for slain Muslim teen Nabra Hassanen, who was brutally attacked and killed with a baseball bat early Sunday. Individuals and ...

About a hundred people joined a vigil held in front of City Hall in Thorold, Ont., to honour an 18-year-old woman who died in a car crash. The city denied her family's request for Muslim burial ...

The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is suing the state to resume Islamic funeral rites, which were halted by a Texas Funeral Commission order in March. EPIC argues their funeral services are ...

Mother earth can be described as man’s inseparable companion. She accompanies man day and night, in life and in death. She surpasses biological mothers in playing her role in the life of man. From a ...

Just as the Texas Funeral Service Commission was trying to push its agenda forward in the final days of the legislative session, the commission's board chair texted its executive director a series of ...

The lack of space for Muslim burials in Dewsbury has reached a "critical point" due to the local authority's failure to take ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The Islamic faith has quite firm guidelines regarding funeral services and how long, after death, a Muslim is buried ...