NJ archbishop sets rules for barring Catholics from Communion
ROME (RNS) Even as Pope Francis and Catholic leaders from around the world debate ways to make the Catholic Church more inclusive, Newark Archbishop John Myers has given his priests […]
A Journey from Christianity to Islam: First Ecumenical Council to Vatican II (325 CE – 1965 CE)
Suggested reading: The Best Collection to Introduce Islam to the Fellow Christians Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Every tragedy has a silver lining. The […]
What Must I Believe to Be a Christian?
Huff Post: by Christian Chiakulas — That’s right, I am a Christian, and I don’t believe that Jesus was God. I don’t believe Mary was a virgin, or that God exists as a “trinity.” I certainly do not believe Jesus died for my sins or those of anybody else, and […]
What’s a sin? Catholics don’t always agree with their church
Source: PEW Research Center BY CARYLE MURPHY 14 COMMENTS Pope Francis has publicly urged Catholics to receive the sacrament of penance and reconciliation, or confession, reminding them that “we are all […]
13 Powerful Women Mystics Who Helped Shape Christianity
Huff Post: The women mystics of Christianity lived courageous and often radical lives. They pushed their bodies to the extremes of survival, challenged societal norms and, occasionally, died for their faith. They were rebels and renegades who helped shape Christianity as we know it today. Like their male counterparts, these women sought a connection to […]
Islam is just as European as Christianity
Source: Quartz Written by Haroon Moghul – a Senior Correspondent at Religion Dispatches and a novelist. He writes extensively on international affairs, religion and culture. “Xenophobic and anti-Muslim” was how […]
Half Of Former Catholics Have Forsaken Religion Altogether
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post And the majority of them say they are unlikely to return to the church. Roughly half of Americans […]
Christians and Muslims, Stop Fighting In The Name Of Jesus
Source: Huffington Post By Dr. David Liepert; Canadian Muslim Leader, Spokesperson, Author and Educator Of all the crazy things going on around the world right now, perhaps the craziest is […]
Americans are leaving religion. Why are we still subsidizing it?
Washington Post: David Niose is the legal director of the Washington-based American Humanist Association and author of “Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason” and “Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans.” Follow him on Twitter: @ahadave The arguments for taxing churches have been around for […]
Islam versus Christianity: Two Religions with Missionary Zeal?
Epigraph: O People of the Book, exceed not the limits in your religion, and say not of Allah anything but the truth. Verily, the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was […]
Poll: 29% of all Americans, including 43% of Republicans, say they think President Obama is a Muslim
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Washington (CNN) A new CNN/ORC poll finds that although misperceptions about Barack Obama’s religious beliefs and background persist, they are not as widespread as some […]
Built By Immigrants, U.S. Catholic Churches Bolstered By Them Once Again
Source: NPR Nearly a century ago, immigrants from Germany and Ireland founded St. Helena Church in a working-class neighborhood in north Philadelphia. Immigrants, and their children, still fill the pews […]
Video: Jonathan Butterworth: Promised Messiah and Inviting the West to Islam
Jonathan Butterworth at Annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jalsa Salana), UK 2015. Video: How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee Epigraph: The Originator of […]
Bible Prophecies of Muhammad
Source: OnIslam By Kamil Mufti The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity. The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, with the Roman […]
Kansas Public School Takes Down Portrait Of Jesus After Complaint
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza; Overnight Editor, The Huffington Post The display was called “an egregious violation of the First Amendment.” A Kansas school has taken down a portrait of Jesus […]
Are Mormons Christians?
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison; Mormon mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife,’ Princeton PhD, nationally ranked triathlete This Sunday, I attended a Methodist worship service as […]
How Salma Hayek’s New Film ‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’ Brings Together ‘All Religions’
http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=55b2c87502a760275e000600&autoPlay=false Award-winning actress and producer Salma Hayek joins a special #WMN to discuss her animated feature film “Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,” based on Gibran’s best-selling poetry book of the same […]
The Top Five Reasons to Study Religion
Source: Huffington Post By Gary Laderman; Chair of the Department of Religion, Emory University and Editor of Sacred Matters Magazine It’s not easy being chair of a religion department. August is […]
Do Demons Exist? Yet, The Office of Exorcism Exists in the Philippines’ Catholic Church
http://www.npr.org/player/embed/424980005/427842172 Source: NPR Help Wanted: The Philippines Needs More Exorcists Alvin Bailon and his wife were at their wits’ end last September. Their 12-year-old son, an honors student, had begun […]
Catholic university to open in Iraq and we have some suggested reading and viewing
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]