Jan. 24, 2007 — -- Sensing a need to respond to an untrue allegation that he had been educated during his childhood in an Indonesia madrassa, Sen. Barack Obama and his staff have aggressively ...

KARACHI, Pakistan | The Jamia Binoria Madrassa in downtown Karachi is considered one of Pakistan's more moderate Islamic institutions. Within these whitewashed concrete walls, students receive a ...

Critics of the city’s first Arabic-themed public school, who have organized under the provocative name “Stop the Madrassa,” think they have been slandered by the ousted principal, Debbie Almontaser.

Underground Madrassa Near Al Falah University Under Scanner Amid Delhi Blast Probe Spread over 4,000-5,000 sq ft, the madrassa's unusual construction, about 7 feet below the ground level, is what has ...

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) Senator Kamran Murtaza on Wednesday asserted that the Societies Registration (Amendment) Bill 2024 that deals with the registration of madrassas would likely to be ...

In a remote village in Shangla, a young boy was recently beaten to death by his teachers — for the "crime" of being absent from his madrassa for two days. His bruised and lifeless body now serves as a ...

PAKISTAN'S anti-terrorist policy was called into question again this week after the armed forces sent helicopter gunships to attack a seminary in the country's mountainous tribal belt. The assault, ...

When Barack Obama was a boy here, he studied for three years at a religious school and prayed four times a day. It was a Roman Catholic school. There, Obama was registered as student No. 203. “Yes, he ...

It was the first time I had seen nervous laughter from a mufti. Mufti Abuzar and Mufti Abu Huraira who run Jamia Islamia Clifton, a large madrassa in Karachi, seemed to shift nervously when their ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In a school in a remote corner of the Afghan capital, a cacophony of children’s voices recite Islam’s holiest book. Sunshine streams through the windows of the Khatamul ...