In Islam, Fajr is the first prayer of the day, one of the five daily obligatory prayers for Muslims. The Fajr adhan — the call to prayer — begins right at dawn, and is to be performed before the sun ...

Jamisha Harris prays with her children every day, but she felt they really needed it before the first day of school this year. The mother of four from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, gathered her children ...

I remember as a child telling my mother about a camping scene I had just read in a book. I described the scent of the evergreens and the soft crush of dried pine needles beneath brown suede shoes. “It ...

In New York City, there have been new sounds on the streets of Astoria during Ramadan this year. Mosques have been broadcasting the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers with the city's permission.