The Latest Breaking News from Islam

Sometimes Rabbi Joshua Franklin knows exactly what he wants to talk about in his weekly Shabbat sermons — other times, not so much. It was on one of those not-so-much days on a cold afternoon in late December that the spiritual leader of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons decided…

Women marched on International Women's Day to demand equal rights in Pakistan. But their slogans, like "my body, my choice," are red meat for conservatives who see the protesters as un-Islamic.

One of the holiest events in the Islamic calendar is marked this month

KABUL: Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a "heartbreaking" ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.

Labor Senator Pat Dodson has demanded that the Albanese government acts urgently over the ‘national disgrace’ of Indigenous deaths in custody, and the Reserve Bank is expected to raise interest rates tomorrow for the 10th time in 11 months.

A small college panicked and fired a professor — but the real lessons aren't the ones the right wants to teach

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Vienna, praised Saudi Arabia’s efforts to dissociate the Islamic religion from the phenomena of terrorism and isolation, stressing the importance of the Makkah Document in confronting hatred and extremist ideas and spreading tolerance and coexistence. During an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat in Riyadh,…

Across the world there’s a trend of far-right figures — many of them prominent Islamophobes — converting to Islam to counter rising ‘wokeness’.

An independent review of the UK counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent, has recommended that the government increase its efforts to tackle Islamist extremism.