Members of a Faribault’s Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center mosque are rallying around a local family dealing with unimaginable tragedy. Despite cultural and religious differences, a bond has formed to help a family who lost a child in December while supporting another son battling an aggressive cancer. Within an hour, mosque leaders raised thousands of dollars…
When their religious neighbors found themselves without a place of worship due to a fire last week, their Jewish counterparts did not hesitate to open their doors. Hundreds of Muslims were welcomed into a New York City synagogue after a fire destroyed part of their Islamic Society of Mid-Manhattan mosque. The Jewish representatives of the Central Synagogue…
When this 18-year-old girl found that she had nowhere to pray in her new city, her neighbors were quick to open their hearts – and their doors. Atul, as her friends call her, is an exchange student who recently moved from Malaysia to Arcata, California so she could attend the public charter school Northcoast Preparatory…