Hagia Sophia’s history as a church, mosque, and museum makes it a unique cultural bridge, but now it is also a symbol of the populist threat to religious minorities.
The administration claims its ban of immigrants from African nations like Nigeria is related to national security. A more plausible explanation is racism.
Interreligious-dialogue initiatives like KAICIID should be welcome in Europe. Austria should find a better way to protest Saudi Arabia’s human-rights policies.
In 2003, Pope John Paul II sent an envoy to persuade George W. Bush not to invade Iraq. As tensions with Iran continue to mount, it’s a story worth revisiting.
Every crusade was both more and less than a religious war. No one had a monopoly on brutality, and economic motivations mattered as much as religious ones.
What do me mean when we discuss religion? Do we refer to an integrated ethnicity and culture? In these darkening times, the word’s origins matter more than ever.
2019 marks the 800-year anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s meeting with Egypt’s Sultan Malik al-Kamil during the Fifth Crusade. The dialogue must continue.
In our divided era, aggressive secularism and Catholic neo-integralism are not the only two options available. A new Vatican document revisits religious freedom.
Some Catholics have critiqued the Document on Human Fraternity for its theology of religion, but little attention has been paid to its reception in the Arab world.
Jack Miles plays the role of voluntary expatriate in his enlightening and hugely sympathetic reading of the Qur’an, and we are all in his debt for doing so
A new graphic novel portrays a world of military coups, propaganda, minority rights, Christian-Muslim tension, and reactionary sexual norms through a child’s gaze
Garry Wills’s book is an intelligent attempt to rescue the sacred scripture of the world’s more than 1 billion Muslims from the hate merchants in Washington
