Ramadan

Farmington Valley American Muslim Center worshipers celebrated ‘Eid Al-Fitr’ virtually to follow Governor Ned Lamont’s executive order of limiting gathers to 50 people or less. The ceremony comes after thousands of Muslims were fasting for Ramadan. Organizers tell NBC Connecticut that Eid is like Muslim Christmas. The center also hosted a drive-thru celebration for all families and gave out both…

“Helping those in need is one of our pillars of Islam,” said 8-year-old Arisha Islam. And that’s exactly what Arisha and her family are doing. For the next several weeks, they’ll help feed those in need outside the Masjid Al-Mustafa Mosque in Waterbury. “I think it’s helpful and nice,” said Arisha. “Ramadan represents giving, charity. It is a month,...

Muslims across Connecticut and around the world are having to make changes to how they observe the upcoming Ramadan, in the age of social distancing. This week begins the month-long practice of fasting from sunrise until sunset. Wajid Danish Ahmed, Public Relations Director for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community CT says while the month marks a time when Muslims come to…

Members of the faith in Connecticut and around the world are finding innovative ways to come together by using online chats to meet up and pray.

Six months after a gunman killed 51 people at two Christchurch mosques, New Zealand’s government is planning further restrictions to gun ownership. A bill introduced to Parliament on Friday would create a register to track all the guns in the country and require gun owners to renew their gun licenses every five years instead of every 10. It would also...

People of all faiths turned out Wednesday night to once again show their support for members of a New Haven mosque that was set on fire two weeks ago.

An Afghan security forces raid against Taliban fighters in eastern Nangarhar province mistakenly killed at least six civilians, including a woman and two children, provincial officials said Saturday. Attahullah Khogyani, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said 10 insurgents were also killed in the Friday night attack in Sherzad district. The civilians’ vehicle was exiting the area right after the raid and...

As local, state and federal investigators try to figure out who set a mosque on fire, New Haven public safety officials have started a new safety campaign for places of worship.

In New Haven, community members came together to condemn hate after someone set fire to the Diyanet Mosque on Middletown Avenue.

Officials are investigating a fire on Sunday afternoon at a New Haven mosque that was under construction and said it appears the fire was intentionally set.

Iraq has seen “a huge increase” in divorce requests in the last three months, the vast majority filed by women, Deputy Justice Minister Hussein Jassem told NBC News. That includes an uptick in applications in regions where ISIS was strong, he said. A judge in the former ISIS stronghold of Mosul reported that dozens of women are applying to dissolve...

A car bomb tore through an unprecedented cease-fire between Afghan forces and Taliban militants on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 20 in the eastern province of Nangarhar, NBC News reported. The blast struck a gathering of Taliban and Afghan security officials held amid a cease-fire to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting season. It’s believed to have killed...

For Muslims all over the world, June 15 marks Eid al-Fitr, the holiday at the end of Ramadan’s month of fasting. It brings festivals, food, gifts and prayers.

Last minute preparations are underway as Muslims around the world stocked up on groceries and dates Wednesday for evening meals to break dawn-to-dusk fasting during the month of Ramadan. Saudi Arabia and other Muslim-majority nations, like Egypt and Indonesia, declared Ramadan would begin Thursday based on a moon-sighting methodology. Muslims follow a lunar calendar, and a moon-sighting methodology can lead...

Walt Disney Pictures announced Wednesday that the highly anticipated fifth “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie will be released on July 7, 2017.

A man who drove a van into worshippers near a London mosque, killing one man and injuring a dozen others, was sentenced Friday to at least 43 years in prison for what a judge called a crime driven by “malevolent hatred.” Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Darren Osborne’s mind was “poisoned” by far-right ideas before the June 2017 attack targeting Muslims...

Russia’s mostly Muslim republic of Chechnya is becoming a major player in rebuilding war-ravaged Syria. And ordinary Chechens are likely to foot the bill, with many of them being forced to make contributions or face the possibility of exile or death, human rights activists say. A murky charitable foundation run by the family of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is restoring...

A Pakistani official says the death toll from twin bombings at a crowded market at northwestern town of Parachinar has risen to 67, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks to 85. Shahid Khan, a government official in Parachinar, confirmed the toll Saturday, saying residents who had been preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan were now in...

Neighbors and acquaintances described the man who allegedly attacked a group of Muslim worshippers as an unemployed lout who was drinking heavily and making anti-Muslim remarks in the days before the attack — details to be closely examined as the investigation widened Tuesday. The attack unfolded Monday when the alleged assailant, identified by British media as 47-year-old Darren Osborne, drove...

Seyran Ates’ vision of a liberal mosque where all Muslims can pray together — women and men, Sunni and Shiite, straight and gay — turned into reality Friday as dozens of people came together in Berlin to inaugurate a new house of prayer. Ates, a well-known women’s right activist and lawyer, preached in front of the crowd which filled the...