JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Maria Ulfah’s father started it all. Even back in the 1960s, he wanted his daughter to have equal status with men. So the devout Muslim encouraged her to study public speaking, ...

Maria Ulfah’s father started it all. Even in the 1960s, he wanted his daughter to have equal status with men. So the devout Muslim encouraged her to study public speaking, take voice lessons and ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Concerned about how Indonesian students with hearing impairments often miss out on religious education, cleric Abdul Kahfi founded an Islamic boarding school to help ...

Recordings of Maria Ulfah are reproduced with permission from White Cloud Press and taken from Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations, introduced and ...

The film presents a look at the annual International Holy Koran Competition held in Egypt during Ramadan. 110 students from around the world come together in Cairo for the event, with undivided ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Betawi) TEACHER WHO DRESSES AS CLOWN TO TEACH KORAN TO YOUNG ORPHANS, YAHYA EDWARD HENDRAWAN, SAYING: "My name is Yahya Edward Hendrawan. I am 38 years old. I am a 'Sharia clown'. There ...

Hassan Deputy Commissioner M.S. Archana has said the practice of Koran recitation during the Channakeshava car festival - Rathotsava - cannot be changed all of a sudden. “The recitation of the Koran ...

Students prepare to attend a class at a boarding school for hearing-impaired children, where they learn the holy scripture of Koran and recite in sign language, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 4, 2022.