(RNS) — Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice — which begins on Friday — is a Muslim holiday that memorializes the greatest sacrifice made in all of history by a renowned patriarch, Prophet Abraham ...

On Saturday, the Muslim community of Anniston, along with the rest of the Muslim world, will celebrate the Festival of Prophet Abraham. Called Eid al-Adha, it is one of the two annual holidays of the ...

Prophets Noah and Abraham are being discussed in synagogues world-wide at this time of the year. Most Jews do not know about the insights of these two men as described in the Qur’an and later books of ...

Nearly 1.6 billion Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice) and it’s the celebration of one central figure in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: the prophet Abraham. So ...

Most people in the world have learned of Abraham the Hebrew (Genesis 14:13), who Jews regard as the first Jew, not by reading a book of Jewish history, but by listening to and reading from the ...

This month, 10 employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, and two police officers were murdered by a band of masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," as they opened ...

Mohamed Kohia, professor, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo. In Islam, Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) is labeled as the father of prophets. Among his children was the first born Ishmael (Ismael) and ...