In various regions, some Muslims worry that the month is getting commercialized, and say an emphasis on decorations, TV shows, outings or lavish iftar banquets can detract from Ramadan's religious ...

A crash on a major road in Egypt kills 18 fishermen and injured three others, officials say. On Thursday afternoon, a truck and a pickup collide on the 30 June Axis south of Port Said ...

The Nile nourishes a green band stretching through the desert, from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Along its ...

The day after the artifacts vanished from the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, officials arrested 52-year-old Miguel Simon Mungarrieta Monsalve. “The defendant believed it was his duty to acquire ...

The owner of the New Egypt Speedway has put the 80-year-old track up for sale for $8.5 million, leaving the future of the ...

Lent begins today, Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18. Here's when it ends, when Easter will fall in 2026 and why it overlaps with Passover.

The start of the month traditionally depends on the sighting of the crescent moon. This year, the first day of Ramadan is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is set to meet for the first time on Thursday in Washington. It's an early test of whether one of his marquee foreign policy initiatives can gain ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two Memphis Shelby County Schools marching bands won first-place in two Battle of the Bands competitions during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the school district announced. Whitehaven ...

A church in Egypt says helping refugees thrive looks like a journey from fear, to hope, to overcoming barriers and then to ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in history for the past few thousand years is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Since its erection, it has been an unsolved enigma as to how the ancient ...

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