OSLO, Norway, March 3 (UNHCR) - On a dark and snowy afternoon in central Oslo, a recording of the Islamic call to prayer plays in a small dental practice above a pizza restaurant to try to make the ...

For believers, the holy month is about much more than fasting. It's a time for reflection and compassion — to give to the less fortunate, gather with community to break the daily fasts, and pray.

Though Harvard’s trial of female-only gym hours and a broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer in Harvard Yard earlier this year grabbed the attention of the national media, members of the Princeton ...

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In Islam, Fajr is the first prayer of the day, one of the five daily obligatory prayers for Muslims. The Fajr adhan — the call to prayer — begins right at dawn, and is to be performed before the sun ...