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Islam
An unprecedented full page NYTimes.com takeover ad ran today sponsored by “The Investigative Project on Terrorism“ A www.NYTimes.com homepage takeover ad from an advertiser called “The…
Bahá'í Faith
Shrine of the Báb, Haifa, Israel Copyright © Baha’i International Community “So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” – Bahá’u’lláh…
Catholicism
Bobby Jindal tells his story of converting to Catholicism at Liberty University commencement speech. You may not have heard of Bobby Jindal, but you soon will.…
Christianity
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Supports State Right to Recognize Religion Justice Clarence Thomas has rocked a few boats in the wake of the Supreme Court’s…
Catholicism
Megachurch pastor converts to Catholicism with announcement that shocks his congregation. Earlier this year, megachurch leader Ulf Ekman, who was the head of the more than…
Atheism
The world’s first Atheist TV Channel will be released in the summer of 2014. American Atheists, an atheist group based in Cranford, New Jersey, has announced…
Christianity
You may have read earlier that for the previous year, we’ve had an au pair in our house from Brazil. We are a family of two…
Entertainment
Ralph Gedeon was taking classes at a Port-au-Prince engineering school when a massive earthquake rocked the island nation on Jan. 12, 2010. (5/18/14) A 26-year-old Haitian…
Entertainment
Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer begins this year on Saturday, May 17. It is a time of both joy and sorrow for the Jewish people. Lag BaOmer…
Catholicism
A new report from the PEW Religion & Public Life Project supports the increasing shift in religious identity within America. This time the focus is on…
Entertainment
Former Southern Baptist preacher, Jason Eden, explains his change in religious beliefs and coming out publicly about it on Facebook in the article “Losing My Religion…
Entertainment
Writer Joshua Dubler has published a book, Down in the Chapel, about “the most religiously ecelctic sliver of real estate in the history of the world”—a…