Jason Holtzman and Muhammed Said Selmanlar met in April at an interfaith iftar — the meal eaten to break the daylong fast during the Muslim observance of Ramadan — at Philadelphia’s City Hall and struck up a friendship.
5 Catholic Storylines To Watch For In 2024
This was a very busy year on the Catholic beat. A decade after Pope Francis replaced the then-retiring Benedict XVI, the consistently progressive pontiff has very much been the focal point of plenty of news coverage in 2023.
In unprecedented decision, Israel’s Supreme Court strikes down law limiting its power
The Israeli Supreme Court has struck down a law that limited its power, an unprecedented decision nixing the one piece of legislation passed under the right-wing government’s effort to weaken the judiciary.
Founder of the American Family Association dies in Mississippi
Donald Wildmon, the founder of the American Family Association, a conservative Christian advocacy group, has died, the organization announced Thursday.
Most Latin American Evangelicals Support Israel. Their Region Is More Divided.
During the last weekend in October, hundreds of Honduran Christians gathered in their country’s major cities to pray for Israel.
Jewish groups object to GOP’s treatment of Muslim candidate for Court of Appeals seat
A number of national Jewish groups have come to the defense of a Muslim judicial nominee, saying Republican lawmakers inappropriately grilled him about his views on terrorism, Israel and antisemitism.
100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university – part of the terror group’s crusade against American Catholics
It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at the University of Dayton, with fewer than 40 students still on campus.
The Gay Pastor, The Conservative Megachurch And The Fight Ripping Apart A Suburb
Pastor Casey Tinnin leads a congregational church in the Sacramento suburb of Loomis. He is also gay. After one Sunday service this past January, a man named Kyle approached, looking for some advice. As Tinnin remembers the conversation, Kyle said…
Suppose Adam and Eve had said they were sorry
Married to a member of an Episcopal church choir, I had the pleasure this past month of sitting through two performances of Lessons and Carols, the musical-scriptural summary of the reason for the season established more than a century ago…