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LONDON (AP) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump for an "ignorant" view of Islam, after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee suggested Khan could be exempted from his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Last year Trump proposed "a total and complete&
Donald Trump
Despite Donald Trump's claim that he wants to unite the Republican Party's diverse elements as its presumptive presidential nominee, the billionaire New Yorker has no qualms about attacking an evangelical influencer in one of the nation's largest and most conservative denominations. Theologian Russell Moore,
Faith
MALDEN – Malden High School and Cambridge Rindge & Latin school are the most racially and ethnically diverse public high schools in Massachusetts, while religiously affiliated schools are among the most diverse private schools in the Bay State, according to reports released by the education research website Niche. At Malden High
Faith
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Religious freedom remains under "serious and sustained assault" around the globe, according to a new annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. "At best, in most of the countries we cover, religious freedom conditions have failed to improve," commission chairman
Beacon Hill
BOSTON – Churches around Boston will commemorate the National Day of Prayer May 5, which takes place annually on the first Thursday in May. Former president Ronald Reagan signed the law establishing the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer in 1988. A decade later, President Bill Clinton
Harvard University
Just before Passover Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold died at the age of 92. The longtime director of Harvard Hillel, he had grown up in a Hasidic community in central Poland and was sometimes referred to as the Harvarder rebbe — a semi-joke that conveyed a truth about the man. I first got
Harvard University
The nation's oldest graduate school of theology is planning to relocate from Newton, Mass., to New Haven, Conn., where a small remnant of the faculty will teach on the campus of Yale Divinity School. On Monday (May 2), Martin Copenhaver, president of Andover Newton Theological School, said he
Catholic
NEW YORK – The Rev. Douglas Al-Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic Church parish priest from Erbil, Iraq, took the podium at the United Nations last week to share his experiences while held captive by Islamic State, the horrors he witnessed, and to appeal for help. "Friends, I am a priest. I
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