For nearly a decade, Kenya’s only church led and attended by L.G.B.T.Q. people has been chased out of one location after another. Vandals hit the first location, a center for sex workers, church members said.
Guatemalan authorities take 160 minors from extremist Lev Tahor sect after abuse allegations
Authorities in Guatemala raided the compound of Lev Tahor, an extremist Jewish sect, and removed 160 children and teenagers after allegations of abuse and human trafficking.
Religion Will Be Crucial As Post-Assad Syria Seeks Restoration
Syria’s 54-year dictatorship under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, now exiled in Russia, was one of the world’s most despised regimes.
Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting – a philosopher shares 3 strategies to help you attain the good life
Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get to school.
German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules
A German court has ruled that an 85-year-old woman and her son who live in a property sold under duress by its Jewish owners in 1939 must give up their home.
How American converts complicate Syrian Orthodox Christians’ future
In Christianity’s early centuries, Syria became one of the faith’s main intellectual centers, producing some of its most important leaders and thinkers. At the beginning of the country’s civil war in 2011, nearly 1,400 years after the conquest of Byzantine…
Egypt’s Redemption—and Ours
The Christmas story is not a story of peace and quiet but a tale of tumult and danger.
Why Scholars Should Take Accounts of Supernatural Phenomena Seriously — And How it Might Save the Humanities
For a decade and a half, Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal has been advocating for the field of religious studies to not only take reports of alien abductions and visits from the dead as seriously as accounts of miracles, but to ask very different questions…
In Michigan, Jewish and Muslim students come together despite their differences
At a time of rising tension between Jews and Muslims over the war in Gaza, students at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan found a peaceful way to coexist: one pastry at a time.
‘Perverted Justice’
Earlier this month, the family of Cameron Lamb marked the fifth anniversary of when he was killed — while unarmed on his own property — by a Kansas City, Missouri, police officer. This week, the pain of the person missing…
Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues again
In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once came to pray.
Denzel Washington Baptized And Receives Minister’s License: ‘It Took A While, But I’m Here’
Movie star Denzel Washington has taken on a new role — last week he received his minister’s license at a church service in New York City. The actor, most recently known for his part in “Gladiator II,” was also baptized,…