AFP — Ibrahim Masri has been calling Muslims to prayer for nearly 15 years in a northern Israel city but his voice is now being silenced because he took part in a bodybuilding contest. The Interior ...

Egypt's state religious authority suspended on Sunday the muezzin of a mosque in the Nile Delta governorate of Beheira, after he personalised the adhan (call to prayer) to include the phrase “prayer ...

An Egyptian muezzin has been suspended by the authorities after being accused of intoning "Prayer is better than Facebook" in his early morning call for people to pray. The action was taken against ...

The bill, which limits the volume of the muezzin’s call to prayer and the loudspeakers of all religious institutions during the day, came after several hours of heated debate. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill ...

CAIRO — His voice, throaty and full, is as known and intimate to this neighborhood as a mother hurrying her children home. It slices from the minaret, spreading over alleys, piercing the sounds of ...

A visually-impaired muezzin (prayer caller) of a mosque has been deprived of his smartphone in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. The suspected robber also changed the password of an online application in the phone ...

“It was the week before December 25, midday on a mild Monday, and the muezzins of London were chanting the glory of Allah and how there was no other god but him…”. This is how “1985”, the prophetic ...

Israel’s Knesset has passed the preliminary reading of a bill that would bar mosques from using loudspeaker systems to amplify the muezzin, or Muslim call to prayer. The bill doesn’t actually say ...

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It is a Friday afternoon and my wife Michal finds herself – for the first time ever – all alone in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. According to ancient tradition the cave is the burial site of ...

To the editor: As The Times notes, the muezzin’s chant, “broadcast over a loudspeaker from the mosque’s minaret, is a familiar sound throughout the Islamic world, from the giant mosques of Cairo, ...