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Parliament of the World’s Religions: Confronting hate speech, ideological...
Christians and Muslims often disparage, fear or distrust the other religion, even to the point of engaging in ideological violence or hate speech. Religious leaders from both communities gathered to...
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Parliament of the World’s Religions: Clarifying misperceptions about Islam to...
Correcting Western misconceptions about the Islamic faith can help take down ISIS, according to four Muslim scholars and leaders who spoke at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. “When we educate...
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The hajj journey of black Americans 50 years after Malcolm X
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — As Shahidah Sharif, an African-American Muslim, joined millions of fellow pilgrims from around the world on the hajj this year, she felt a renewed connection. To her own...
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Religious leaders provide different perspectives on heaven and hell
The Heaven and Hell Symposium that took place on Thursday, Oct.15, 2015 featured representatives from four different faiths to discuss beliefs of the afterlife. These individuals each had different...
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New York Times reporter visits BYU to talk terrorism
New York Times senior reporter, Eric Schmitt, addressed an overflowing crowd at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 to discuss ISIS, Al Qaeda and other terrorist threats. Eric Schmitt has...
View ArticleMostafa Al-Jadani: A faithful Muslim’s Provo experience
Living in a predominately Mormon community with Mormon roommates isn't a common occurrence for many Muslims, but for Mustafa Al-Jadani, it is a reality. Al-Jadani, 21, is a citizen of Saudi Arabia,...
View ArticleCroatian ambassador tells students to share the refugee crisis burden
Josip Joško Paro, Croatian ambassador to the U.S., addressed BYU students in the Kennedy Center about the refugee crisis in Europe Wednesday afternoon Jan 20, 2016. Paro told BYU students that the...
View ArticleGov. Herbert, Interfaith Roundtable encourages Utah public to attend...
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable chairman were among a few officials who urged members of the public to be "open to the ideas and beliefs of others" during the kick off of...
View ArticleMillennials keeping their faith
Timothy O’Malley is a millennial, but he is certainly not a “none.” According to O’Malley, the 33-year-old director of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, a Pew research study showing millennials...
View ArticleIvory Coast: Extremists kill 14 civilians, 2 special forces
Armed men attacked an Ivory Coast beach resort Sunday, killing at least 16 people and sending tourists fleeing through the historic town of Grand-Bassam in an attack claimed by al-Qaida's North Africa...
View ArticleTurkey carries out airstrikes after deadly bombing in Ankara
Turkey's air force hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Monday, hours after a suicide car bombing in the capital killed 37 people and heightened tensions with the militants.
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A radical view on Islam Amid recent world events and a presidential race full of controversy, one of the issues at the forefront of America’s mind is Islam and how to deal with the ever-present threat...
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Social media useful in preventing Islamophobia, raising awareness
Scrolling through Twitter after an ISIS-related terrorist attack yields tweet after tweet defending the religion of Islam — and a slew of negative, incriminatory and degrading Islamophobic tweets. Many...
View ArticleInterfaith efforts invite Utahns to learn about other religions
Religious and interfaith groups have organized events to help Utahns get to know the diverse faiths and believers represented in the state. Utah is 67 percent Mormon, followed by Protestants and...
View ArticleFact checking common misconceptions about the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Editor’s note: This story pairs with another titled “LDS Church, BYU Jerusalem Center remain neutral amid Israel-Palestine conflict.” The Daily Universe asked the challenging questions so you don’t...
View ArticleExchange students share experiences with Islam, dispel myths
It’s 6 a.m. in Greece and BYU Arabic and middle eastern studies major Melena Warden wakes up to her daily alarm — a recording of a man reading the Quran in Arabic. Warden spent about a month and a half...
View ArticleIS reverting to insurgency tactics after losing caliphate
BEIRUT (AP) — After being nearly defeated on the battlefields of its would-be caliphate, the Islamic State group has reverted to what it was before its spectacular conquests in 2014, analysts say — a...
View ArticleProtests in Pakistan delay release of Christian woman
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The release of a Christian woman in Pakistan, acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, was apparently delayed Friday after talks failed between the...
View ArticleChristian theologian calls hijab ‘Islam’s gift to Western democracy’ in...
Matthew Kaemingk penned an op-ed in 2017 claiming the headscarf worn by Muslim women is a gift to Western democracy, not the threat that many perceive it to be. “I want to suggest that Islam’s entrance...
View ArticleSpeakers say religion has potential to create safe communities for...
Read or listen to a Portuguese translation of this story. One third of Americans report being chronically lonely and half of Americans express that no one truly knows them. National suicide rates have...
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