The city of Minneapolis worked with leaders in the Muslim community to have the call to prayer broadcast by speaker five times a day. The broadcast will be generated from the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque and organizers expect it will reach thousands of residents, from sunrise to shortly after sunset.
The American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP) brought together over 30 national Muslim led non-profits with expertise in the healthcare, social services, faith and fiqh, and policy to compile resources and address the unique needs of American Muslims across the country.
A blessing for wearing a face mask fills a gap in tradition, giving an inexplicably blessingless commandment a benediction like other sacred deeds.
A famously traditional community has mobilized to help hospitals with medical supplies, even as it struggles with reconciling its communal way of life with the dictates of social distancing.
This article highlights the unique challenges faced by developing countries and the pressing need for a coordinated global response that recognizes and utilises religion’s social capital.
The church is trying to help a local hospital in an economically depressed area of West Virginia that has struggled with the opioid epidemic.