DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Twelve-year-old Boubacar was picked up from the streets of Senegal’s capital at night by police, along with dozens of other children, in the latest crackdown on begging. The boy ...

DAKAR, SENEGAL: Cameroonian authorities have been holding 84 children — some as young as 5 years old — for months without charge after officials accused their teachers at Quranic schools of running ...

The kids are not fed, so it's not for food. They wear rags, so it's not for clothes. They don't have mattresses, so it's not for their beds," says Paul Ndiaye, of the Swiss aid group Sentinelles, who ...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, represented by the Department of Da’wah and Religious Guidance, continues to organize the intensive Quranic course for students of the Al-Noor ...

(Dakar) – The Senegalese government has not gone far enough to combat the chronic and widespread abuse, exploitation, and neglect of thousands of talibé children living in traditional Quranic schools, ...

Cameroonian authorities have been holding 84 children – some as young as five years old – for months without charge after officials accused their teachers at Quranic schools of running terrorist ...

Sabiha Çimen’s first photo book, “Hafiz” (Red Hook Editions), opens with a portrait of a nine-year-old named Hatice trying to recite the Quran by heart. She wears a lilac hijab, printed with thin ...

The case of the Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen has spotlighted the legal and moral complexities of retributive justice in Muslim countries. Nimisha has been in prison since 2017 for the murder ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A new park that uses gardens and landscaping to tell stories from Islam's sacred text has opened in Dubai, offering locals and tourists a day out with a religious twist. Quranic Park ...