Off a highway in central Connecticut is the mosque with a 400-student Muslim Sunday school. More guards are on patrol these days. And for the older students in the transition class, talking about ...

Dec. 8 marks the opening of the Jubilee of Mercy, a yearlong celebration of God's compassion. Pope Francis, who has made mercy the motto of his papacy, hopes that this year will be "a true moment of ...

Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich visits with Kareem and Rana Irfan before the 19th annual Catholic-Muslim "iftar" dinner at the Zakat Foundation of America in Bridgeview, Ill. The theme for the ...

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More than one fifth of the world’s population follows Islam, the fastest growing religion. Join Dennis Aronson, Ph.D., for a presentation on “Understanding Islam” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March ...

Welcome to Rome. Pope Francis greets Syrian refugees he brought to Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos, at Ciampino airport on April 16, 2016. A recent study from The Bridge Initiative found that the ...

After focusing early in his life on topics in analytic philosophy and religion, David Burrell, C.S.C., turned to studying comparative issues in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the author of ...

The assignment on world religions that was handed out to students at Riverheads High School in rural Virginia seemed pretty simple, on its face. A teacher’s printout explained why calligraphy was ...

Kazuki Suleyman Kanehara, 31, who adopted the name Suleyman, embraced Islam after years of learning about religion from a ...

In the Rahman Mosque in Central Florida, at the Friday sermon a few weeks ago, the imam said: “The innocent Islam has been hijacked, and has been attacked with filth and dirt.” I am originally from ...