BANDA ACEH, Indonesia--Hundreds of people join the Ramadan evening prayers at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in the capital of Indonesia’s far western Aceh province. They wash their hands to prevent ...

Aceh's unofficial slogan is that it is the "veranda of Mecca," and many of its residents seem to sit on this porch with their backs to the rest of Indonesia, embracing an Islam closer to that ...

In provincial capital Banda Aceh's Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, relatives of the dead huddled under tents to pray for their loved ones. Some repeated the widely held view in the province that the ...

The Syattariyah Sufi order uses a different method to determine the date of Eid al-Fitr from what is commonly used by Muslims ...