Interreligious Dialogue

Gov. David Paterson pleaded for religious tolerance Saturday during a speech at a Long Island synagogue. The governor made his remarks to an Orthodox congregation in Westhampton Beach that is trying to win village approval to erect a symbolic...

David A. Paterson -- in his first visit to a synagogue since becoming New York's governor -- told a crowd of about 1,000 people at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach Saturday that their efforts to put up an eruv in the community should be seen...

President Bush's Olympic odyssey started with a game of political one-upmanship today, as his blunt critique of the host country prompted China to warn the U.S. president to stop meddling in its business. The dustup over human rights unfolded just as...

Syria's grand mufti, the country's top Sunni Muslim religious authority, says he would like to meet Pope Benedict XVI and persuade him to visit Syria. The mufti, Sheik Ahmad Badereddine Hassoun, made the comments in Damascus, according to the Italian...

Shakespeare's most disagreeable play (after the gore-fest of "Titus Andronicus") usually gets lumped in with the comedies, but to our contemporary sensibilities it's about as funny as bear baiting. There are comic moments, to be sure, but make no mistake:...

The Muslim hard-liners arrived just before midnight armed with stones, clubs and flammable liquid. Townspeople cowering in fear heard chants of "Destroy! Destroy!" and watched the mob set ablaze the mosque of an offshoot Islamic sect that the attackers...

by Katie Fretland James Dobson, the powerful conservative Christian leader who accused Sen. Barack Obama of having a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution, said in a radio segment today that he might endorse Sen. John McCain for president. "I...

DENVER — Give them that old-time religion — ancient religion — and then watch an exploding population of modern Pagans give it a contemporary twist. The number of Neopagans roughly doubles about every 18 months in the United States,...

The written record cannot be trusted in Salman Rushdie's newest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, a story that roams from the red sandstone palace of the great Mughal emperor Akbar to the towered Palazzo in Machiavelli's Florence. One character is...

During this election year the topic of religion is very much in the news: religious endorsements have seemed to both bless and curse all the candidates. Rumors abound concerning the religious views of public leaders and, ironically, in the country that...

Out for a walk with his wife, Gary Krupp looks like an ordinary guy, he lives in a modest home, in a middle class neighborhood. But what he does is extraordinary, he is perhaps one of most influential people in the world when it comes to spreading...

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