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    Coronavirus Fears Derail Friday Prayers For Muslims Across The World

    "Islam doesn't permit practices that would put human life in danger," said the head of religious affairs in Turkey, one of a host of Muslim-majority countries to curtail gatherings at mosques.
    by Colin Dwyer Mar 19, 2020 1 minute
    A government worker disinfects the Kılıç Ali Pasa mosque in Istanbul last week. Turkey is just one of a host of countries across the Muslim world where Friday prayers have been banned or curtailed to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

    Come Friday, few places will show the effects of the coronavirus more vividly than mosques across the world — not so much for what will be there, as what

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