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Issues
As the number of civilian casualties in Gaza rises, Palestinian protests have been prohibited in Kashmir, the sole Muslim-majority state in India, where an armed insurgency…
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Muslim and Jewish advocacy organizations report a significant surge in incidents of harassment, discrimination and physical assaults targeting their respective communities since the October 7 Hamas…
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In what critics are decrying as an attack on free speech, the head of Florida’s university system has instructed educational institutions to dissolve on-campus chapters of…
Catholicism
After trying in vain to meet with Pope Francis for 11 years, famed Hollywood actor Whoopi Goldberg finally got a private audience with the pontiff on…
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Mosques in New York City will no longer be required to obtain a special permit for the public broadcasting of the Islamic call to prayer on…
Books
Why did American Evangelicals overwhelmingly vote for Donald Trump in 2016? Why did American Evangelicals overwhelmingly vote for Donald Trump in 2016? Lutheran pastor and journalist…
Books
Reverend Duncan’s new book “Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S.” Reverend Lenny Duncan is the pastor…
Christian
Does God have a chosen people, and does he favor certain societies? Distinguished biblical scholar Michael Coogan considers these questions in his provocative new book, God’s…
Catholicism
How Pope Francis was chosen, the problems he inherited from Benedict XVI, and how Francis represents “a number of firsts.” The election of Pope Francis on…
Featured Contributors
“Listening to a witness makes you a witness.” – Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was an internationally-recognized writer, educator, and human rights activist. He was awarded…
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How American Jewish Women have left a legacy that reverberates across American history. For more than three and a half centuries, Jewish women have paved a…
Catholicism
In American Priest, Father Miscamble offers a three-dimensional portrait of Hesburgh as a Catholic priest, university president, and public servant. Father Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1917-2015) was…