interfaith
‘Border Church’ and ‘Border Mosque’ team up for prayer service
By Alejandra Molina — October 23, 2019
SAN DIEGO (RNS) — After praying together for months at the U.S.-Mexico border, local Muslims and Christians will host an interfaith, binational prayer service on Sunday (Oct. 27) at Friendship Park, where families separated by immigration status have gathered to share time.
Interfaith group urges congressman to skip Texas rally for India’s prime minister
By Alejandra Molina — September 17, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — An event, dubbed 'Howdy, Modi!,' is being held amid reports of violence and intimidation by Indian soldiers in Kashmir villages.
We are not all the same, and in our difference we are divine
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 30, 2019
(RNS) — Seeing oneness in difference is the only way I know for us to move beyond our supremacies and to begin treating one another as equals.
Interfaith group pledges to use religion’s influence to address climate change, poverty
By Eric J. Lyman — August 26, 2019
LINDAU, Germany (RNS) — Azza Karam, the newly elected leader of the interfaith group Religions for Peace, urged delegates to the group's recent World Assembly to harness the power of religion to address climate, nuclear arms and income inequality.
In northern Nigeria, Muslims and Christians take small steps toward reconciliation
By Doreen Ajiambo — June 7, 2019
(RNS) KAMPALA, Uganda — Muslims and Christians in Nigeria have started small-scale attempts at reconciliation after years of ethnic and religious conflict.
Evangelicals and Muslims see similarities in faiths and favor closer ties, survey says
By Aysha Khan — March 20, 2019
(RNS) — As a growing movement of evangelical Christian leaders is working to improve Christian-Muslim relations, a new study finds that more than 3 in 4 U.S. evangelicals say they never or infrequently interact with Muslims.
After attack on Hindu community, Kentucky shows the way forward
By Jay Kansara — February 8, 2019
(RNS) — Indian and Hindu Kentuckians work with leaders across faith and cultural backgrounds to show a united front in the face of hate crime against Hindu temple in Louisville, Ky.
A new play, ‘Christmas Mubarak,’ mixes Christian and Muslim stories of Jesus’ birth
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 5, 2018
CHICAGO (RNS) — A Chicago theater company hopes its first-of-a-kind mashup will illustrate how much Christianity and Islam actually have in common.
He’s not a rabbi, and it’s not Judaism
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 31, 2018
What happened in Pittsburgh was anti-Semitic. What happened in Michigan was anti-Judaism.
Trump White House faith outreach a picture of selective access
By Adelle M. Banks — October 5, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The White House says its administration 'continues to engage hundreds of faith leaders on various issues that directly impact their communities,’ but some say they’re not in that number.
How do you feel Jewish?
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 2, 2018
Jews have a problem with joy. Deal with it.
Mazal tov, Paul Ryan?
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 2, 2018
Welcome to the new Jewish denomination: Jews by surprise.
Catholic diocese quits Maine Council of Churches
By Mark A. Kellner — May 31, 2018
(RNS) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, Maine, is withdrawing from the Maine Council of Churches in a bid to distance itself from LGBT advocacy and other stances that the church says could compromise its public moral witness.
Millennials: get over your faith phobia
By Aamir Hussain — May 24, 2018
(RNS) — Interfaith work isn’t about watering down our religions. It’s about building relationships so we can together serve others.
Interfaith leaders join Jews in call for new envoy to fight anti-Semitism
By Adelle M. Banks — May 17, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'Mr. Secretary, anti-Semitism starts with Jews, but doesn't end there: when any minority is threatened, everyone is less safe,' the signatories told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
