Ceremony To Appreciate Principals Committee Members

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Department of Islamic Religious Studies yesterday organised an appreciation ceremony for principals and heads of departments of religious schools, as well as committee members of the recently held Knowledge Convention (Majlis Ilmu) 2011 and the 1st Islamic Education Convention 2011 (KPI).

Uttar Pradesh mosques double up as primary schools

Amid the mushrooming convent schools, mosques still continue to be popular centres of learning at least up to the primary class level in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district. The trend is more common in cities and towns where Islamic primary schools are rare.

Mary J. Loftus: Advocates of Sharia Can Learn From Catholics and Jews

Prickly questions abound when determining how religious minorities with distinctive family norms, cultural practices and their own religious law, courts and schools, can be accommodated in democratic societies.

28 TRUANT STUDENTS ORDERED TO READ QURAN

KOTA BAHARU, Feb 6 (Bernama) -- Twenty-eight male students in severalsecondary schools around Kota Baharu detained for truancy today, were ordered toto read the Quran.Kelantan Education director Hussin Awang said the students were taken to the Mukim Telipot mosque, here, for counselling and ordered to read the Quranunder the guidance of the imam, Ahmad Yunus.The students aged between 15 and 18 ...

Kumasi Schools Ban Muslim Students From Worshiping

From: Alhaji Bashiru Zakari, Kumasi. Muslim students in some second cycle schools in the Ashanti Region have been banned from practicing their religion in the school by some Christian fanatics. Prayers and other Islamic activities have become forbidden in such schools.