Imam Muhsin Hendricks, 58, was fatally shot around 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15 in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape.

Hundreds of people in rainbow colors gathered on Saturday in South Africa’s tourist magnet Cape Town to honor the world’s ...

Discrimination in any form is an affront to human dignity and human rights. No scripture, no doctrine and no belief system should ever justify the violation of another’s humanity.

The tragic murder of Imam Muhsin Hendricks highlights the urgent need for acceptance and understanding across diverse belief ...

The world's first openly gay imam in the Muslim faith was shot and killed in what local authorities say may be a hate crime.

Most headlines call him the “world’s first openly gay imam,” a newsworthy descriptor but hardly the whole story. Beyond ...

The response to the murder of Imam Muhsin in South Africa last week sends a chilling message that queer and trans Muslims do ...

Muhsin Hendricks was ambushed by two men in a pick-up truck while visiting the southern city of Gqeberha on Saturday. Police said the men involved in the killing had their faces covered. A security ...

LGBTQ+ advocates are fearful the killing was a hate crime as Hendricks came out as the world’s first openly gay imam in 1996.

The assassination of Hendricks, South Africa’s first openly gay Imam, has ignited a fierce debate within the Muslim community ...

Muhsin Hendricks was credited by some as being the world’s first openly gay imam and helped Muslims reconcile their faith ...

Muhsin Hendricks, the world’s first imam to publicly come out as gay in 1996, was shot dead in South Africa on February 15 in what appears to be an ambush. Eastern Cape provincial police ...