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MAYVILLE — Jurors picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won't hear about the fatwa that au...

ST. BONAVENTURE — A Prayer Vigil for Peace in the Middle East will be held at St. Bonaventure University at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 in the University Chapel, Do...

The United States has sent $2.6 billion of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan since August 2021, some of which wound up in the hands of the Taliban terro...

NEW YORK — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar ecli...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (TNS) — An estimated 1.8 billion Muslims around the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, a time the observant dedicate to ...

U.S. tax dollars shouldn’t subsidize groups that employ terrorists. Yet the Biden administration hasn’t been able to clear that low bar. Late last mon...

It was sure to happen that American troops in the Mideast would be killed by assaults from Iranian terror proxies and now it’s happened, with three U....

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. citizen living in Egypt sought to join the al Shabaab terrorist organization and wage violent jihad against America and its all...

OLEAN — The Olean Area Interfaith Community is pleased to announce a program on Prayer in our Faith Traditions, to be held on Monday evening, from 7 t...

A few days after releasing two American hostages, Hamas freed two elderly female Israeli captives on Sunday. But 230 more innocent civilians — includi...

Saturday’s Hamas terror onslaught from their stronghold in Gaza into Israel, murdering hundreds, was a sneak attack, just like the sneak attack by Egy...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...

Chances are, your humble, obedient servant here will never be invited to teach at Hamline University, a Methodist school in St. Paul, Minnesota. For o...

RONKONKOMA (AP) — Hate crimes officers are investigating after an incendiary device exploded outside a mosque on Long Island, damaging a metallic cres...

To our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world: As-salaamu ‘alaykum! (Peace be with you!) More than a year has passed has since the COVID-19 ...

Prophet Yunus (Jonah) was sent to Nineveh, an ancient town in current day Iraq, around 800 BC. People of Nineveh had immoral ways of life and had turn...

In Islamic tradition, among the many signs of the end of times is the appearance of Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, or false Messiah. The Antichrist. In Arabic, “...

It was the seventh year after the beginning of the Quranic revelation, and the polytheistic Meccans were persecuting Muslims, especially from the lowe...