Applause from the audience rang out when residents asked questions at a community hall in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. But the cheers were not what the organizers of the gathering were seeking. The ...

IBARAKI, Osaka -- On the morning of April 10 this year, when a chill remained in the air, Muslims gathered in a residential district of the Osaka Prefecture city of Ibaraki. They were there to ...

A decision by a city near Tokyo to bar a mosque from holding a longstanding outdoor prayer session in one of its parks has ...

During my first Ramazan in Istanbul, which came hardly a month after I moved here in 2024, I decided to say my Friday prayers in a mosque. For the first Friday, I went to the Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia), ...

Mansour Kaziha was the mosque’s shopkeeper known for letting children take candy for free. Nadir Awad was funny, cheerful and regularly went to the mosque to pray. And Amin Abdullah was a dedicated ...