Dr. David Hasan has a recurring dream. He is in a hospital in Gaza at the tail-end of 2023, treating a dying toddler.
Enslaved To Ordained: ‘Father Gus’ Belongs At The Center Of Black History Month
The first publicly recognized Black priest in the United States, Augustus Tolton, may not be a household name. Yet I believe his story – from being born enslaved to becoming a college valedictorian — deserves to be a staple of…
Meet Buddhism’s Kung Fu Nuns Of The Himalayas
High in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, Druk Amitabha Nunnery is home to 800 nuns of the Drukpa Order of Himalayan Buddhism.
Why Religion, Not Income, Predicts the American Vote
Here’s one advantage of being a professor that I’ve only really started to appreciate in the last couple of years: if you sit with an idea long enough—thinking about it repeatedly for days on end—you eventually find a new way…
Ritchie Torres’ challengers are testing how Israel plays in the Bronx — and taking aim at ‘Zionists’ in a Jewish neighborhood
In his campaign to unseat the Bronx’s pro-Israel congressman, Ritchie Torres, political organizer Jose Vega has referred to the New York City borough as “Gaza West.”
What to Know About the ‘Abortion Clinic’ Law Being Used to Charge Don Lemon
The Trump administration used a federal law prohibiting blockades of abortion clinics and places of worship to charge Mr. Lemon and others in Minnesota.
Arab Women in Theological Education: Calling, Context and Faithful Witnesses
She took our mentoring call from her roof, the winter sun blazing brilliantly above. Behind her, the Mediterranean stretched to the horizon, and around her, colorful flowers her husband had tended with delicate care bloomed vibrantly in their rooftop garden….
Nicki Minaj declares ‘God is protecting’ Trump at Trump Accounts event, receives ‘Gold Card’
Rapper Nicki Minaj proclaimed that “God is protecting” President Donald Trump as she spoke at an event launching a new economic initiative by the president, revealing later in the day on social media that she has received a Trump Gold…
Top Vatican official calls violence in Minneapolis ‘unacceptable’
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Leo XIV’s key adviser and the Vatican’s secretary of state, described the deadly shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis as “unacceptable,” as a growing number of Catholic prelates in the United States have spoken against immigration…
Reformed Presbyterians excommunicate white supremacist minister
One of the oldest denominations in the United States has deposed and excommunicated a 42-year-old minister for his white supremacist views.
Faith leaders criticize Trump administration’s removal of Philadelphia slavery exhibit
Religious leaders are among those objecting to the National Park Service’s removal of a historic exhibit about slavery located steps away from Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and that featured African Methodist Episcopal Church founder Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, the first Black priest…
There are long-lasting, negative effects for children like Liam Ramos who are detained, or watch their parents be deported
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old boy who is an asylum seeker, in Minneapolis on Jan. 20, 2026, the photos quickly became a flash point in the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement activity.