He’s familiar yet novel, this Muslim Jesus. We almost recognize the cadence. “Blessed is he who sees with his heart but whose heart is not in what he sees.” Still, it’s off somehow, and where are ...
In a strange variation on Matthew’s Gospel that Christians probably haven’t heard, Jesus declares to his followers: “Truly I say to you, God will not leave one stone of this mosque upon another but ...
CHICAGO (RNS) — The scene is familiar from many Nativity scenes arranged at this time of year: the Virgin Mary, cradling the newborn Jesus. Then, the baby speaks, defending his mother’s innocence and ...
A house of worship is bringing a traveling exhibit on the life of Jesus to Nashville. But the host is not a church — it's a mosque. The Islamic Center of Tennessee is inviting the public to view the ...
There were repeated new claims this week, by senior Palestinian leaders and the official press, that Jesus was a “Palestinian” and the “first Palestinian.” A senior Palestinian leader this week also ...
Over Christmas, several Palestinian leaders repeated the claim Jesus was a Palestinian, but one took it a step further, calling him the first Islamic martyr. Tawfiq Tirawi, a senior Palestinian leader ...
For Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, humanity begins in roughly the same way: God creates Adam and Eve, gives them a garden to call home, and tells them to keep away from a certain tree. But Satan ...
A new pamphlet issued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints represents its leaders’ latest effort to encourage understanding of Muslims and root out Islamophobia within its ranks — an ...
For Palestinian Muslims and Christians, the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, on the land of historic ...