Sentences with phrase «imams work»
According to the report «The American Mosque 2011» by University of Kentucky professor Ihsan Bagby, half of all mosques in the U.S. have no full - time staff, and only 44 percent of imams work as paid, full - time leaders.
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«I know that he's being guarded, that he's not been staying in the usual places, that he's not working from his office and that he's concerned for his safety,» said another friend of the imam's, Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon, in an interview Sunday night.
Morton, former dean of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, said the imam was mostly avoiding New York, where he typically works, since returning from a State Department trip to the Middle East two weeks ago.
A gunman shot and killed an imam and his assistant on the street near their mosque in a working - class corner of Queens on Saturday afternoon, the police said.
Similarly, many Catholic schools have good working relationships with mosques and imams who assist in the teaching of Islam at primary and secondary level.