An explosion tore through a mosque during evening prayers on Wednesday in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, a Reuters witness said. There was no immediate word on casualties or official comment.

Several people are feared to have been killed and injured in Nigeria after a suspected suicide bomber carried out an attack on a mosque in Borno state. Eyewitnesses said the blast happened during evening prayers. One report suggests seven people were killed, but there has been no official confirmation of any casualties.

The suspect is described as a middle-aged white man with shaggy hair and a beard. He was wearing a tan jacket and blue jeans at the time of the vandalism, police said.

A Long Island mosque’s plan to expand sparked a seven-year legal fight with the Town of Oyster Bay, which the mosque said used zoning laws to restrict its religious freedom.

The Broken Arrow Planning Commission voted to approve the rezoning request to turn 15 acres of land just south of the Creek Turnpike along Olive Avenue from agricultural use to commercial and conditional use,

The cause of a middle-of-the-night fire at a Prior Lake mosque and school is still unknown, but Islamic community leaders have asked mosques across the state to be alert.

Legal experts say that First Amendment protections and zoning laws are key factors in why the mosque rezoning request was approved, despite vocal opposition from some community members.

Part of the roof collapsed, but no one was hurt in the blaze at the Masjid Hamza mosque and Baitul Hikmah Academy.

In the season of giving, a 75-year-old Sikh woman has donated land for the construction of a mosque in a village in Punjab.

A suicide attempt at Masjid al-Haram in Makkah was foiled after Saudi security personnel swiftly intervened, preventing a fatal fall; one officer suffered fractures during the rescue.