A proposal to build a cemetery for Muslims in South Miami-Dade County was rejected by a community zoning appeals board late Thursday evening after hours of public comments. The request came from a ...

Imam Kifah Mustapha, director of The Prayer Center in Orland Park, Illinois, on Feb. 27, 2024. Mustafa Hussain for HuffPost ORLAND PARK, Ill. — Kifah Mustapha, the imam at Orland Park Prayer Center, ...

On Monday 15, February 2021, two men who played key roles in Kenyan politics were laid to rest. One, 89-year-old Simeon Nyachae who died on February 1, 2021. The other, Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji aged ...

Plans for a 9,000 plot Muslim burial site on rural farmland in Cornwall have been withdrawn after a furious public backlash. A planning row erupted after a charity - The Gardens of Mercy - requested ...

THE story of Bradford’s first Muslim burial is set to be told on a long-running BBC show. Digging for Britain sees Dr Alice Roberts examine the findings and research of British archaeologists over the ...

The lack of space for Muslim burials in Dewsbury has reached a "critical point" due to the local authority's failure to take action , a councillor has said. Community Alliance representative Ammar ...

In an apparent violation of Islamic tradition, an Ottoman-era grave in Israel's Negev desert holds the remains of not one, but two people: a woman and a boy who might be her son. Islamic tradition ...

With the number of Muslim burial plots on Long Island scarce, developers are looking to open an Islamic cemetery at the site of a closed private airport in East Moriches. The graveyard, identified in ...

Imams and Muslim community leaders are now calling for more Islamic cemeteries, or additional space in the country's existing graveyards, as the faithful increasingly want to be buried in Italy, their ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta pays his last respects to the late former Cabinet Minister Simeon Nyachae at his gravesite during his burial at his Nyosia home, Kisii County on February 15, 2021. [PSCU, ...