BY NIRAJ WARIKOO When Kazi Miah came to the United States 20 years ago from Bangladesh, he didn’t speak a word of English. Now, he’s a successful politician who is to be one of three Bangladeshi-American Muslims on Hamtramck, Michigan’s six-member City Council, a percentage that Muslim advocates said they believe is the highest Muslim... Continue Reading

Mormon Tabernacle revival service is latest sign of openness to evangelicals. Robert Millet would do things differently if he were carefully strategizing how fellow Mormons could best pursue interfaith contacts. “I probably wouldn’t have started with evangelicals,” said the Brigham Young University (BYU) professor, considering the antagonism between the two groups since Mormonism’s beginnings. “If... Continue Reading

Creationism is growing in the Muslim world, from Turkey to Pakistan to Indonesia, international academics said last month as they gathered here to discuss the topic. But, they said, young-Earth creationists, who believe God created the universe, Earth and life just a few thousand years ago, are rare, if not nonexistent. One reason is that... Continue Reading

Pro-life lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have slammed purported compromise language on abortion in healthcare reform as a “sham.” The language was proposed in an amendment known as the “Ellsworth amendment” by Democrats desperate to overcome a bloc within their own party that will attempt to bring down the abortion-expanding bill if it... Continue Reading

On a recent afternoon in Geneva, stagehands prepared the Protestant meeting hall on the Place de la Fusterie for a musical, “The Calvin Generation,” to be performed there that evening. Springtime for Calvin? Not quite. The religious reformer, best known for his doctrines about a depraved humanity and a harsh God predestining people to hell... Continue Reading

By: Omar Sacirbey Science and faith may often clash, but a new survey suggests that most American doctors believe religion and spirituality can help patients. Published Monday (Oct. 26) in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the survey found that 90 percent of physicians are satisfied with spiritual services provided by hospital chaplains to their patients.... Continue Reading

The Prosecutor who authorised a six-hour raid on a Protestant Sunday worship service in a private home in eastern Belarus has refused to explain why it happened. “It was an official action and I can’t discuss it,” Vitaly Kovalev, Prosecutor of the Chausy District, told Forum 18 News Service. He also refused to say what... Continue Reading

LOS ANGELES – (AP) To attract new members, the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles has turned God’s house into a doghouse for one service each Sunday. The 30-minute “Canines at Covenant” worship service features individual doggie beds, canine prayers and an offering of dog treats. The church’s pastor, the Rev. Tom Eggebeen,... Continue Reading

As Muslims prepare for a funeral today in Detroit for Islamic leader Luqman Ameen Abdullah, his family and a coalition of Muslim organizations are calling for an independent investigation into his death in a reported shootout with FBI agents in Dearborn. The family of Abdullah, the imam of Masjid Al-Haqq in Detroit, told the Free... Continue Reading

By Emma Brown Creating an original organism required no bolt of lightning for a team of University of Virginia students. But it did take buckets of ice, vials of bacteria and a FedEx delivery. Nestled in the package were bits of DNA, whipped up in California and ordered online. When they arrived at a lab... Continue Reading