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By Genevieve Balance-Kupang Ramadan Mubarak! During this Holy Month of Ramadan, I am one with you, our Muslim siblings, as you offer profound prayers, carry out fasting and charitable works, reflect on the Holy Quran, enjoy the gift of your religious community, and solidarity of your partners in the interfaith movement. As a practitioner of interreligious dialogue and a facilitator of multicultural education, I requested four Muslim counterparts to share their reflections on the Season of Ramad...

By Kadiker Rex Dahn, MA, M.Ed., PhD Background In the course of history, many have distorted and misapplied the Sacred Text of the Holy Bible.  Before the Holy Scripture was written, the father of all lies, distortions and misapplications, that Ancient Serpent called the Devil, maneuvered his way to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and sugarcoated God’s instruction on the forbidden fruit. The Serpent succeeded when he cleverly enticed, deceived and misled Adam and Eve at their detrimen...

Major archbishop: ‘Ukraine is expecting the Holy Father to visit’ Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the Vatican March 25, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Catholic News Agency select The people of Ukraine are expecting a papal visit, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said in an interview. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk told the charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that Pope Francis could visit the Eastern Euro...

Faith and Values column by Fatima Kermalli: The legacy of Imam Ali

This subject of this article is about COVID-19 but before ‘getting into it’ we need to establish context. The world is a bewildering place. Nations war and destroy. Individuals lie and lust and murder, and as if mere killing weren’t enough, they often do it in unimaginably heinous ways. Such things defy rational human thought and logic.  The compulsion to worship drives the human soul The 20 th Century theologian C.I. Scofield pegged the reasons for nations and peoples’ behaviors. �...

Pressure Intensifies on Catholic Church to Change Teaching That Homosexuality Is ‘Intrinsically Disordered’ 04/20/2021 at 4:53 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White According to analysts, the continuing push to remove this phrasing from the Catechism of the Catholic Church is rooted in a broader campaign to legitimize homosexual acts. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, April 20, 2021 VATICAN CITY — Pressure continues to be exerted on Church leaders to remove the language of Cat...

April 19, 2021 As many Christians can attest, and as Carina Benton details here, priests across the country are kicking out parishioners for not complying with their mask mandates. Sometimes, as Father Milton Ryan did with pregnant mother Deidre Hairston after she received communion at Holy Trinity Catholic Parish in Dallas, Texas, they will even resort to having law enforcement escort them out of the building during Mass. What’s more, many bishops fully support their priests taking such acti...

Widnet Il-Baħar U Stejjer Oħra   by Joe Friggieri, published by Kite Group Malta, 2020 Professor Joe Friggieri’s Widnet Il-Baħar u Stejjer Oħra published by Kite Group is the fourth collection of short stories presented to the public in the last five years, the previous three having become so popular to the point of either being translated into foreign languages or being read to the public on various local stations. Brief, to the point and leaving space for one’s own personal reflectio...

Keep the Faith: Reflections on Easter and its Hymns The Rev. Paul E. Gramit Easter is, of course, the commemoration of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. He’d been executed by crucifixion the Friday prior (in spite of being found not guilty). He was not just severely wounded or in some sort of unconscious state; He was actually dead, thus further proven by the spearing of His side, as blood and water came out separated. Likewise, on that first Easter Sunday, the third da...

The saga of damage and desecration of mosques in Kashmir The saga of damage and desecration of mosques in Kashmir Last Updated: Thu, Apr 15th, 2021, 14:40:20hrs New Delhi, April 15: The damage caused to the village mosque at Hadipora in southern Kashmirs Shopian district during an encounter between the security forces and the militants on 9 -10 April has outraged the local population but, in contrast to some previous incidents, the public anger this time around is unmistakably against the milit...