Lod city council member Amichai Langfeld told Arutz Sheva that all attempts to reach agreements with the Arab sector for the month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr have failed, and this year Lod residents ...

A new bill establishes a default ban on the use of public address systems in mosques, licensing requirements, extensive ...

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AFP — Ibrahim Masri has been calling Muslims to prayer for nearly 15 years in a northern Israel city but his voice is now being silenced because he took part in a bodybuilding contest. The Interior ...

Israel’s Knesset has passed the preliminary reading of a bill that would bar mosques from using loudspeaker systems to amplify the muezzin, or Muslim call to prayer. The bill doesn’t actually say ...

The bill, which limits the volume of the muezzin’s call to prayer and the loudspeakers of all religious institutions during the day, came after several hours of heated debate. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill ...

Israel’s proposed “Muezzin Bill,” that would limit use of loudspeakers for religious purposes, has drawn widespread opposition from across the Muslim world, but perhaps the most unusual protest comes ...

The soulful voice that called worshippers to prayer at Masjid Nabawi (ﷺ) has fallen silent forever, as the final Adhan of the ...

Cologne mosques need to apply for a special permit in order to be able to broadcast the call. The initiative will be limited to two years and then be re-evaluated. BERLIN (AP) — The German city of ...

To the editor: As The Times notes, the muezzin’s chant, “broadcast over a loudspeaker from the mosque’s minaret, is a familiar sound throughout the Islamic world, from the giant mosques of Cairo, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In Radio Muezzin, four men of Islam, muezzin, who perform the call to prayer, the ‘azhan’, speak about ...

The German city of Cologne will start permitting mosques to broadcast muezzin calls for prayer, the city said Monday. The calls can be broadcast for five minutes every week for the Friday prayer ...