As a 12-year-old Catholic boy growing up in England, Michael Fitzgerald decided he wanted to be a missionary in Africa. Eight years later, he was studying theology and learning Arabic in Tunisia. He ...

(RNS) — Tens of thousands of Muslims are turning to technology to continue the sacred practices of hifz, or preserving the entirety of the Quran through memorization. (RNS) — During Ramadan, the month ...

Taha Ahmed was all of 5 years old when he stood in front of a Muslim congregation and read from the Quran in Arabic. It wasn’t so hard, he whispers now, curled up between his parents on the living ...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs continues to implement its remote Quran learning initiative, “Taa’hud”, during the holy month of Ramadan, as part of its ongoing efforts to ...

This year during Ramadan — the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar when Muslims believe the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad — I was in solidarity with my Muslim sisters and ...

Faduma Muhammad Warsame, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Minnesota, photographed at her home Friday, May 8, 2015, in Eagan. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters ...

Dubai – Whereas so many young people have learnt the holy Quran in full without being able to pronounce or understand a single word in Arabic, learning this language makes Quran memorization much ...

As part of an integrated vision to nurture a generation grounded in the teachings of the Holy Quran, the Ministry of Awqaf ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Every year, as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached, Surya Sahetapy and his close friends would start to feel depressed. They were at their wits’ ends about how to help ...