I had been a churchgoer for years before I came to Canada.It had become my religion and my place of worship.And then a few weeks ago, I became aware of a new mosque in downtown Toronto, and suddenly, all of that changed.I began to see a pattern: a pattern that continued until a week ago.In
Pope Francis has invited Turkish President Erdogan and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to pray together at the Vatican’s main mosque in the capital.The Pope issued the invitation on Tuesday after meeting Erdogan in Rome, and he said it would be “the first time in the world that the pope and the King of Saudi Arabia
A gunman opened fire at a mosque in the North Carolina city of Charlotte, killing three people and wounding at least four others before he was shot and killed by police.The gunman, identified by local news outlet WISTV as 63-year-old Omar Mateen, died after being taken into custody by police, CNN affiliate WNCN reported.The shooting
New research by the Pew Research Center reveals that countries around the world are slowly and steadily improving their relationship with Islam and that some have made progress toward the goal of preventing hate crimes.In the United States, Muslim-majority countries saw an overall decrease in hate crimes in the second quarter of this year, according