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The General Authority for Islamic Affairs, Endowments, and Zakat has announced that starting January 2026, Friday sermons and prayers across all UAE mosques will begin at 12:45 pm. Worshippers are ...

The authority called on worshippers to arrive early at the mosques Abu Dhabi: The General Authority of Islamic Affairs, Endowments and Zakat has announced a change to the timing of the Friday sermon ...

Zackary Canepari and Jessica Dimmock update "Bowling for Columbine" for a country that still refuses to address one of its most preventable crises. Bulletproof desks that students can flip over at the ...

The reason some prayers go unanswered is because they are unscriptural. Fretful, anxious, worried, and fearful prayers are seldom answered; while unscriptural prayers are never answered. Effective ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Minneapolis does allow the “adhan,” or Muslim call to prayer, to be broadcast ...

"Pray with me," Freida Parton urged Parton's fans in a Tuesday, Oct. 7 Facebook post Jason Kempin/Getty Dolly Parton announced on Sept. 28 that she would be postponing her December Las Vegas residency ...

Yom Kippur (also called 'Yom Kippur' or 'Kippur') is the holiest day of the year. It is a day when we fast, confess our sins, and ask the Creator of the world to seal us in for a good and sweet year.

Legal scholars and pastors consider the president’s call for the formation of prayer groups for the nation. This week the White House issued detailed prayer guidance, urging Americans to pray an hour ...

Offering “thoughts and prayers” after a tragedy may sound insufficient, said Father Chris Collins, a Jesuit priest and vice president for mission at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota ...

Partisans on both sides of the political aisle are entrenched in a war of words following statements made regarding prayer and its efficacy in preventing mass shootings—part of a broader decades-long ...

Vice President JD Vance slammed MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Thursday after she criticized prayer in the aftermath of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minnesota. In an X post, Vance defended ...