Muhsin Hendricks, the first openly gay imam, was shot dead in a car attack in South Africa. Hendricks, who ran a supportive mosque for marginalized Muslims, faced significant challenges since ...

He ended the marriage and came out publicly as a gay imam in the mid-1990s and started a support network and later a mosque for gay Muslims. He advocated for their inclusion through his Al ...

Following the incident, the police arrested nine individuals, including the mosque's imam, citing the introduction of an unapproved religious practice as the reason for the action, as per a report ...

Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, Shiraz, Iran Known as the Pink Mosque ... Built in the 19th century during the Qajar Dynasty under the orders of Mirza Hasan Ali Nasir, this mosque remains one of Iran’s most ...

Muhsin Hendricks was credited by some as being the world’s first openly gay imam and helped Muslims reconcile their faith with their sexual orientation. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg A South African ...

Hendricks came out as a gay imam in the mid-1990s, later founding a support network and a mosque for gay Muslims. Through his Al-Ghurbaab Foundation, he campaigned for their inclusion, referring ...

Across town a week later, a far more low-key ceremony took place at Lakemba’s Imam Ali mosque. There, and at the Great Synagogue across town, the hope was the same: justice, equality and inclusion.

With Ramadan just days a way, their volunteer imam ... Sakeenah Ali’s children, who attended Elliott Magnet Middle School across the street from the mosque, lost their school in the fire.

a pioneering figure dubbed the world's first openly gay imam, has been shot dead in South Africa. The 57-year-old cleric ran a mosque in Cape Town intended as a safe haven for gay and other ...

Footage circulating on social media shows the assassination of the imam in broad daylight. Hendricks gets ready for the start of the Jumu’ah prayer at the Inner Circle Mosque, in Wynberg ...