Mary Catherine Ford is a writer in Queens, N.Y. With mosques shuttered, community gatherings banned and the holy sites of Mecca and Medina closed, the world’s almost 2 billion Muslims are celebrating ...

A Wisconsin Life special shares stories of community and faith of Muslim Wisconsinites. Host Angela Fitzgerald visits the Fox Valley Islamic Society in Neenah to learn about their community and faith ...

During Sunday worship 13 years ago, my district minister invited me to the front to bless me in my first pastoral calling. I stood with her, looking at all the faces of church members and community ...

(RNS) — I wash dead bodies in my free time. With 70 other Muslim women, I volunteer to perform the last Islamic rites, a collective obligation. Someone must fulfill this duty, otherwise, we will all ...

Trigger warning: Abuse, sexual assault, and self-harm. Sex has always been on my mind. As a child, I thought of it constantly and abstractly, not fully understanding what it was. By age 10, I had ...

There comes a point in every woman’s life when she sits with her girlfriends and exchanges the “how did you lose your virginity” story. It’s a little bit like a tribal rite of passage. There is ...

Sept. 11, 2001, is a day etched in the memory of every American. For me, it was a day that profoundly changed my life on multiple levels. As a new believer in Christ, I experienced the events of that ...

Ramadan is particularly poignant at Princeton University this year. The Muslim holy month happens to coincide with the end of Princeton’s academic year — concluding on Commencement day June 4 — and it ...

It's 2:19 in the morning and my husband begins his fast for Ramadan in half an hour. He went to bed about 10 minutes before me but always waits for me. He's about to begin his fast in 28 minutes. But ...

(RNS) — I wash dead bodies in my free time. With 70 other Muslim women, I volunteer to perform the last Islamic rites, a collective obligation. Someone must fulfill this duty, otherwise, we will all ...

I started wearing the hijab a few months shy of my 13th birthday, as a commitment to my Muslim faith and dressing modestly. That’s also when I got glasses and braces and began high school. It was 2005 ...