PORTLAND, Maine — Islamic leaders are using social media, virtual town halls and face-to-face discussions to spread the word that it’s accepta…
Over the last week, I have had conversations with a few friends and readers. They discussed the idea that the season of Lent is the time to se…
WASHINGTON — For nearly four years, President Trump has inspired a cadre of liberal-leaning religious activists to organize, mobilize, protest…
PARIS — As a French-born Muslim, Elyazid Benferhat's stomach turned when he heard about a deadly Islamic extremist attack on a church in Nice.…
Suffering has always been a part of human history and remains a present reality. People in early civilizations believed that suffering was the…
This Ramadan, celebrations will look a little different, and organizations and individuals around the world are doing their part to make it special.
Q: What do different religions think about sin?
Manal Ezzat fled the wreckage of the Pentagon - then went back to work to transform it.
GREENSBORO — As minivans and other vehicles begin trickling into the Greensboro Coliseum parking lot and empty out, a visual symphony emerges …
Readers have asked questions about the details of hell. We can find descriptions of hell in sacred texts of the two larger religions that beli…
It’s often easy to be bedazzled by a video clip that ends up in your Twitter or Facebook feed. But short clips may lack context. So, as a service to readers, here’s how that particular sentence fit into the themes of the overall speech.
CLEMMONS — Nine days after a man fatally shot 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand, the greater Forsyth community gathered at a Clemmons mo…
WASHINGTON — Mark Harris, the former pastor at Charlotte’s First Baptist Church and a Republican candidate for the U.S. House, said in a 2011 …
At the notorious Nazi death camp, young Germans reckon with the past and grapple with modern fissures over migration and identity across Europe.
Tribalism is one of those things that everyone laments yet everyone engages in, to one degree or another. It's hard not to see political devel…
WASHINGTON -- Those defending President Trump's nativist initiatives would like to assure you that the policies are not based in bigotry.
A federal jury in Kansas on Wednesday convicted three right-wing extremists of plotting to massacre Muslim refugees living in an industrial to…
In recent years, anti-bullying campaigns have become standard fare in high school and college. Our society has decided, rightly, that bullies …
WASHINGTON — Beyond the slick, Hollywood-style cinematics, the Islamic State is targeting Western recruits with videos suggesting they, too, c…
Q: I read about the attack on Muslims in London as they left their Ramadan prayer service. Please explain Ramadan.
Clinton: Trump unleashed ‘dangerous’ level of hate
HERBERT OSMON, Winston-Salem
WASHINGTON — “Culture and demographics are our destiny.” Stop.
CLEMMONS — As a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey in the 1960s, Mary Cameron learned a lot about Islam.