At sunup the other day, a white pigeon flew through the open window of my bathroom and settled, cooing, on the edge of the sink. A good omen, said my young translator, Ramesh. An invitation, I thought ...

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The Islamic-Christian Council for Support of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Wednesday blasted the Israeli plan to prevent the call to prayer on the loudspeakers of mosques in Jerusalem and labelled it "a ...

Lod city council member Amichai Langfeld told Arutz Sheva that all attempts to reach agreements with the Arab sector for the month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr have failed, and this year Lod residents ...

AFP — Ibrahim Masri has been calling Muslims to prayer for nearly 15 years in a northern Israel city but his voice is now being silenced because he took part in a bodybuilding contest. The Interior ...

Israel’s Knesset has passed the preliminary reading of a bill that would bar mosques from using loudspeaker systems to amplify the muezzin, or Muslim call to prayer. The bill doesn’t actually say ...

The bill, which limits the volume of the muezzin’s call to prayer and the loudspeakers of all religious institutions during the day, came after several hours of heated debate. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In Radio Muezzin, four men of Islam, muezzin, who perform the call to prayer, the ‘azhan’, speak about ...

Noor ul Islam recites Koran at the grand Faisal Mosque during Ramadan in Islamabad - Copyright AFP Aamir QURESHI Noor ul Islam recites Koran at the grand Faisal ...

CAIRO — His voice, throaty and full, is as known and intimate to this neighborhood as a mother hurrying her children home. It slices from the minaret, spreading over alleys, piercing the sounds of ...

To the editor: As The Times notes, the muezzin’s chant, “broadcast over a loudspeaker from the mosque’s minaret, is a familiar sound throughout the Islamic world, from the giant mosques of Cairo, ...