Off a highway in central Connecticut is the mosque with a 400-student Muslim Sunday school. More guards are on patrol these days. And for the older students in the transition class, talking about ...

Dec. 8 marks the opening of the Jubilee of Mercy, a yearlong celebration of God's compassion. Pope Francis, who has made mercy the motto of his papacy, hopes that this year will be "a true moment of ...

Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich visits with Kareem and Rana Irfan before the 19th annual Catholic-Muslim "iftar" dinner at the Zakat Foundation of America in Bridgeview, Ill. The theme for the ...

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Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich visits with a couple during a June 27 Catholic-Muslim dinner in Bridgeview, Ill. A Georgetown University research group found Catholic perceptions of Islam can tend ...

The assignment on world religions that was handed out to students at Riverheads High School in rural Virginia seemed pretty simple, on its face. A teacher’s printout explained why calligraphy was ...

TUSCALOOSA | For six months after Sept. 11, 2001, Mirza A. Beg spent Sundays speaking at various churches. Beg, a Muslim, was in high demand, especially at mainline protestant churches. He said he got ...

The thirst for a deeper understanding of Islam has increased, due in part to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but also because an increasing number of U.S. citizens are Muslims. Most Americans have, at ...