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

A man hailed as the world’s first imam to say he was gay was shot dead in South Africa on Saturday, local police said, in ...

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 ...

Gunned down on Saturday morning, the man dubbed the world’s first openly gay Imam was as loved as he was controversial. A friend and scholar reflects.

CCTV video, verified by CNN, shows the moment the world’s “first openly gay” imam was shot dead in Bethelsdorp, South Africa. Muhsin Hendricks, 58, had established a mosque for LGBTQ+ Muslims in Cape ...

Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world's first openly gay imam who was gunned down last weekend in South Africa, stood as a ...

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

Muhsin Hendricks, renowned as the first openly gay Imam, was tragically killed in South Africa. Police report unclear motives ...

Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was shot and killed in South Africa over the weekend, as authorities investigate whether the murder was a hate crime. In a statement ...

Hendricks was the “first imam in the world to come out as gay” in 1996 ... family is in deep shock at the news of the murder of Muhsin Hendricks, and calls on authorities to thoroughly ...