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December 2019

December 04, 2019

Growing number of U.S. Latinos leaving Catholic Church for Islam

Details:  About 8 percent of all Muslim Americans adults are Latino, according to a 2017 report from...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

Hundreds Form Human Chain to Protect Muslims Praying at New Zealand Mosque

From CNN: Hundreds of people gathered outside a mosque in Wellington, New Zealand, and locked...

March 12, 2019

Hail, Mary: Young Christians, Muslims to Celebrate Annunciation Together

Details:  About 1600 boys and girls from over 40 countries will take part in the...

February 2019

February 09, 2019

‘In Our Time’: A Message for Our Time, from St. Paul VI

Worth re-reading: Nostra Aetate, "In Our Time," the Catholic Church's "declaration on the relation of...

February 09, 2019

‘Profoundly Wrong’: Muslim Denied Presence of Imam at His Execution — UPDATED

From Catholic News Agency:  A Muslim man convicted of murder has been executed in Alabama...

October 2018

October 10, 2018

Coexist: How a Muslim family defied ISIS to save ancient Christian manuscripts

Amazing story: A Muslim family hid for three years two ancient Syriac Orthodox books in...

June 2018

June 03, 2018

Report: Trump to host Ramadan dinner at White House

From Politico: President Donald Trump will host an iftar dinner at the White House next...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

President Trump marks Ramadan, noting ‘the richness Muslims add to the religious tapestry of American life’ 

An interesting development, as reported by The Washington Post:  Offering warm greetings on Ramadan and...

May 08, 2018

Fake news: That report on Saudis striking a deal with Vatican to build churches

From John Allen at Crux, an update on a story that generated significant buzz last...

May 04, 2018

Report: Saudi Arabia signs deal with Vatican to build churches for Christians—UPDATED

The Vatican has yet to confirm this report, but if true, it's huge: In wake...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

WATCH: When a Catholic marries a Muslim in Iowa

From Slate:  What happens when a devout Muslim and devout Christian commit to each other...

April 03, 2018

Muslims converting in Europe: ‘They’ve found Muslim immigrants to be much more open to the message of Christianity’

This development continues a trend that has been building for a couple years: The refugee...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Why are some Muslims converting to Christianity?

Mustafa Akyol in The New York Times has this insight:  The antigovernment protests that erupted...

March 22, 2018

Fake news: No, ‘Muslim migrants’ did not ‘storm a church in France’

A video has been making the rounds—you can see it here—that describes an "invasion" of the...

March 13, 2018

Mike Pompeo: ‘Jesus Christ our savior is truly the only solution for our world’

So, who is Mike Pompeo? It turns out, the man tapped to replace Secretary of...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

Letters reveal Winston Churchill’s family feared he would convert to Islam

Winston Churchill in 1904 (photo: Imperial War Museum / Wikipedia) From The Daily Telegraph:  In...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

Report: ISIS terrorist seen on video was once a “devout Catholic”

From The Independent:  The disturbing face of French “jihadism” has been revealed by a statistical...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Katy Perry video edited after Muslims charge blasphemy

Details from the BBC:  The video for Katy Perry's track Dark Horse has been edited...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

Priest facing prosecution for using “Allah” to refer to God

From Christian Post:  A Roman Catholic priest and director of a diocesan newspaper in Malaysia...

December 2013

December 14, 2013

Muslims help rebuild a Catholic church

Heartening and inspiring news from the Philippines: Christian residents of this city’s Santa Catalina district...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

A Catholic university makes room for Muslims

From The Minneapolis Star Tribune: Dark-haired young men started arriving about 12:30 p.m., piling their...

October 2013

October 20, 2013

After membership declines, Catholic church sold to Muslims

Details from the Sunday Express: St Peter's Catholic church in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, has now closed its doors to...

October 06, 2013

Muslims form human chain to protect Christians at church

From a newspaper in Pakistan:  Hand in hand as many as 200-300 people formed a...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Former all-girl Catholic academy now home to Long Island’s first Islamic school

  Photo: Newsday / Alejandra Villa Details from Newsday:  In classrooms where Catholic girls once...

September 10, 2013

Must-see video: making the homeless smile in NYC

This is pretty great:  A group of young Muslim YouTubers took a break from making...

July 2013

July 17, 2013

Report: More Hispanic Women Converting to Islam

Details:  For Zainab Ismail, a Bronx-born Hispanic woman, the turning point came in March 2009 after a...

July 05, 2013

Meet the Muslims Keeping the Peace at Christianity’s Holiest Site

Who knew? Details:  If you follow the boisterous groups of cross bearers and prayer-humming nuns...

June 2013

June 23, 2013

On Dolan’s Visit to a Mosque: “The Church Regards with Esteem the Muslims…”

Various corners of the internets have been aswarm with critical reaction to Cardinal Timothy Dolan's...

June 19, 2013

Is One of the World’s Greatest Churches About to Become a Mosque?

Reports a few weeks ago indicated as much—and now it's closer to reality:  While unrest...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

Catholic Ireland welcomes growing number of Muslims

From The Atlantic:  A new 60,000-square-foot development is likely to generate friction in any urban...

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