Co-founder of Muslim civil rights group resigns, cites discrimination
In a June 21 blog post, Farhana Khera, cofounder and executive director of the civil rights group Muslim Advocates, said she had been forced out of her role due to gender and religious discriminat...
Popular Muslim prayer app ends relationship with firm selling data to US military
The popular Islamic lifestyle app Muslim Pro, which has nearly 150 million downloads around the world, says it will stop selling its users’ location data to a tech firm that resells that informatio...
Rashida Tlaib joins Congressional Freethought Caucus
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, one of the first Muslim women in Congress, has joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus....
Fringe Muslim leader released from prison early due to coronavirus
A Muslim leader who spent the past several years leading a small national following from a federal prison has been released early due to the coronavirus....
Preserving black Muslim stories in a pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic takes a disproportionately deadly toll on seniors and African Americans, a new oral history initiative aims to train black Muslim youth to document their elderly communi...
Black churches, others face hate on Zoom
With their eyes closed in prayer, asking God to help the country’s overburdened health-care workers, members of the Impact Movement ministry group never saw the attack coming....
Muslim magazine editor Amani al-Khatahtbeh announces Congress run
Amani al-Khatahtbeh, founder of Muslim Girl, has become the first Muslim woman to run for Congress in New Jersey....
‘Deadly as Dachau’: Activists call for mass decarceration during COVID-19 pandemic
If any locals still braving the streets walked past Boston’s John F....
Biden faces backlash over staffer with Hindu nationalist ties
Former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign is facing growing pressure to fire a top aide with Hindu nationalist ties....
More than 10,000 Christians petition Boston College to reject Koch grant
More than 10,000 Christians have signed a petition urging officials at Boston College to reject a potential donation from the Koch Foundation toward the Jesuit university’s political science depart...
More than 10,000 Christians petition Boston College to reject Koch grant
More than 10,000 Christians have signed a petition urging officials at Boston College to reject a potential donation from the Koch Foundation toward the Jesuit university’s political science depart...
With exhibit on Abraham, Episcopal cathedral in Boston organizes interfaith conversation
The day after the deadly mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue last October, more than a thousand people gathered on the Boston Common to mourn and pray....
Why young Muslims are using a messaging app to pray for Bernie Sanders
It’s no secret that many Muslims are fans of Sen....
Christians feel threat of Hindu nationalism
Watching some 50,000 of her fellow Indian Americans line up outside a Houston stadium on September 22 to see India’s prime minister Narendra Modi take the stage at last month’s Howdy Modi rally, Sa...
Congressional hearing on travel ban highlights muddled waiver process
Ismail Alghazali has never met his five-month-old daughter....
Faith groups push back against State Department’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights
A coalition of 430 human rights, civil rights, foreign policy, and faith organizations, leaders, and scholars has submitted a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to dismantle his d...