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On June 6th, heads of state including US President Donald Trump will gather at a beach in northern France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. In this successful but deadly military operation, thousands of American and other allied soldiers lost their lives in the first phase of a final push to liberate France and the continent from German Nazi occupation
A high school teacher in the state of Minnesota is fasting during the high holy month of Ramadan to show support for his Muslim students
Pope Francis arrived in Bucharest on May 31 at the beginning of a three-day pilgrimage to Romania. Thousands of people gathered along the main boulevards of the capital, Bucharest, to see Francis as he made his way to the presidential palace. After meeting with President Klaus Iohannis and the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Daniel, the pontiff performed a mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral.Tens of thousands of believers attended an open-air mass led by Pope Francis at the Sumuleu Ciuc shrine on June 1
ASIYA is changing the lives of Muslim girls and women by producing culturally-appropriate athletic wear
Muslims around the world break their fast at sundown during the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims believe Ramadan is an opportunity to get closer to God by, in some cases, learning more about the poor
Liu Jian hid 2,000 photographs shot over the weeks leading up to the 1989 massacre, printing them only after he was living in the U.S. and realized his daughter’s generation knew nothing of the movement
On June 4, 1989, a bloody crackdown by the Chinese government on a student-led pro-democracy movement in China shocked the world. Thirty years later, student leaders and activists of the movement attended a conference in a Washington suburb, where they talked about what happened in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and why
Muslims in the U.S. state of Alaska face nearly 20 hours of daylight during the fasting month of Ramadan
During the month of Ramada, millions of U.S. Muslims fast from dawn to dusk each year and this year, Ramadan has fallen in May. Already temperatures in Washington D.C. have risen above 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit.) Running while fasting on hot days can be challenging and ill-advised
The Buganda Kingdom plays a significant role in Uganda. Since the restoration of traditional Kingdoms in 1993, it has served as an essential support-base for politicians running for office, spearheading cultural and development programs within the country