Essay: Faith can help heal our polarised country
Writing in the US context, L GREGORY JONES, president of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, says communities of faith are distinctively (perhaps even divinely) positioned to demonstrate how to build solidarity with one another…
“A new world”: As Afghan refugees celebrate Islam’s holy month, US church gives Ramadan lessons
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how United Church of Christ churches are supporting Afghan families who have recently arrived in the US…
“We are all the same” – Barcelona church opens doors to Ramadan dinners
Barcelona, Spain Reuters With COVID-19 restrictions preventing Barcelona’s Islamic population from celebrating Ramadan at the usual indoor venues, a Catholic church has offered up its open-air cloisters for Muslims to eat and pray together. Every evening between 50 and 60 Muslims, many of them homeless, stream into the centuries-old stone passages of the Santa Anna […]