The downtown project was scuttled amid anti-Muslim sentiment. The head of the Anti-Defamation League recently apologized for opposing the plan. By Anne Barnard Sharif El-Gamal, who once proposed a ...

NEW YORK - The Muslim cleric who hopes to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site said Friday that he'll tour the country in an effort "to inspire interfaith understanding" for a ...

NEW YORK — The imam leading an effort to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site said Friday that he has no plans to meet with a Florida pastor who has threatened to burn copies of ...

In Egypt last week, the Arab summit was over, but one important guest lingered on. He was Saudi Arabia’s lean, eagle-beaked Premier Feisal, who during the week-long conference of Middle East leaders ...

NEW YORK — The imam who co-led the effort to build an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center has been given a reduced role in the project that made him one of the nation’s most ...

On Wednesday, pro-Palestinian students gathered in front of Yale’s School of Management building during a Middle East peace panel organized by the School to protest the absence of Palestinian voices ...

Sen. Robert Menendez spent years helping the Egyptian-American imam behind the controversial ground zero mosque — a plan the embattled Democrat later championed. Menendez, 69, was indicted on federal ...

Yoruba priestess Aina-Nia leads a water ceremony by Lake Michigan as part of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago on Aug. 15, 2023. During the ceremony, which recognized the sacredness ...

(RNS) — At the Parliament of the World’s Religions, faith leaders held a ceremony to repent for failing to care for the Earth. CHICAGO (RNS) — Dealing with the climate crisis will require developing ...

NEW YORK - The furor over the planned mosque and Islamic center near ground zero has put Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in a curious position: At the same time he is being vilified in the U.S. for ...

Following a $350 million suit filed by Westchester-based volunteer firefighter Vincent Forras—who alleges that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Park51 have caused “psychological terrorism” by planning the ...