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  • Amy Jill-Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler co-edited "The Jewish Annotated New Testament." They want Jews to become more comfortable with the Christian holy book and Christians to be more comfortable with its Jewishness.

    Jewish scholars dare to bridge religious divide

    By Jeremy Lott - Special to The Washington Times

    Annotated Bibles don’t often make headlines, but “The Jewish Annotated New Testament” (Oxford University Press) - the title alone is enough to provoke spirited discussion - has caused a stir. Published January 31, 2012 Comments

  • "I have a hand in both worlds. I love praise and worship music, and I love heavy metal," says Megadeth guitarist David Ellefson. (Associated Press)

    Life after Megadeth could be in pulpit

    By Associated Press

    Concordia Seminary in suburban St. Louis gets an eclectic mix of students in a program allowing them to train for the ministry online — electricians, farmers, entrepreneurs — and even a founder of one of the best-known thrash metal bands. Published January 22, 2012 Comments

  • Conservators examine a portion of the Dead Sea Scrolls containing the Ten Commandments before the scrolls' installation at Discovery Times Square in New York for a 10-day exhibition. (Associated Press)

    Ten Commandments come to Times Square

    By Bonny Ghosh - Associated Press

    A well-preserved 2,000-year-old scroll of the Ten Commandments discovered in a cave went on display in the city for the first time for a 10-day window beginning Friday Published December 18, 2011 Comments

  • Members of the Pakistani Christian community attend a Sunday service at their new St. Peter's church in Karachi. The domed, three-story building towers over the sprawling slum it serves and is the largest yet in the violent, Muslim country. (Associated Press)

    New 5,000-seat Christian church a sign of the faithful’s resilience

    By Ashraf Khan - Associated Press

    Pakistan’s tiny and downtrodden Christian community thought big when constructing its latest church - a domed, three-story building that towers over the sprawling slum it serves and is the largest yet in the violent, Muslim country. Published November 21, 2011 Comments

  • "Part of our core message is that seasons change, and when you believe, if you don't get bitter and you don't get discouraged, you may not change overnight, but you can get peace," said Joel Osteen, a pastor who leads America's largest congregation, Lakewood Church in Houston. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

    Osteen: Americans’ faith at ‘all-time high’

    By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

    Megachurch pastor, best-selling author and perennial optimist Joel Osteen has good news to share. Published October 24, 2011 Comments

Recent Articles

  • Mormons overcoming hurdles

    By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

    U.S. Mormons say that they are still not fully accepted in America, especially by evangelical Christians, and believe the entertainment media - from the Broadway play, "The Book of Mormon" to HBO's "Big Love" portrayal of polygamy - aren't helping improve their image. Published January 12, 2012 Comments

  • Muslims skip NYC mayor's event to protest spying

    By Samantha Gross - Associated Press

    More than a dozen Muslim clerics and civic leaders skipped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's annual interfaith breakfast Friday, saying they were upset that he supported police department surveillance efforts in their neighborhoods. Published December 30, 2011 Comments

  • Report slams Dutch Catholic church over sex abuse

    By Mike Corder - Associated Press

    Thousands of children suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions over the past 65 years, and church officials knew about the abuse but failed to stop it or help victims because they feared sparking scandals, according to a long-awaited report released Friday. Published December 16, 2011 Comments

  • FBI arrests 7 in Amish haircut attacks in Ohio

    By John Seewer and Thomas J. Sheeran - Associated Press

    The leader of a breakaway Amish group allowed the beatings of those who disobeyed him, made some members sleep in a chicken coop and had sexual relations with married women to "cleanse them," federal authorities said as they charged him and six others with hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks against other Amish. Published November 23, 2011 Comments

  • Appeal denied on highway crosses in Utah

    By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

    The Supreme Court handed a victory to atheist groups Monday, declining to hear a case on roadside crosses honoring fallen Utah state troopers in a move likely to intensify the debate about the constitutionality of religious symbols on public property. Published October 31, 2011 Comments

  • Animated film spurs protests by Muslims

    By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

    The animated film "Persepolis" has been called blasphemous by Islamists and sparked protests leading to confrontations with Tunisian police. Published October 16, 2011 Comments

  • Catholics express unsettling words in response to translation of Mass

    By Jordan E. Otero - The Washington Times

    If the experience of the faithful in other English-speaking countries is any indication, American Catholics are in for a bumpy transition as they encounter the most sweeping changes to the text of the Mass in more than 40 years. Published October 12, 2011 Comments

  • 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online

    By Matti Friedman - Associated Press

    Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's national museum and web giant Google. Published September 26, 2011 Comments

  • Pope's visit to German homeland evokes range of emotions

    By Nurhan Kocaoglu - Special to The Washington Times

    Reverence, joy, protests and anger: Pope Benedict XVI's first state visit to Germany, which wrapped up Sunday, left very few Germans indifferent. Published September 25, 2011 Comments

  • Rosh Hashana meal taps autumn harvest

    By Jim Romanoff - Associated Press

    You may not think of Jewish cooking as trendsetting, but the truth is it has been focused on seasonal recipes sporting local ingredients since long before farmers markets became the darling of the foodie scene. Published September 22, 2011 Comments

  • Catholic bishops push Obama for 'reset' on marriage law

    By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

    The nation's Catholic bishops have urged President Obama to "push the reset button" on his administration's treatment of a federal marriage law, or face an enormous national conflict between church and state. Published September 22, 2011 Comments

  • Abuse victims seek case against pope

    By Mike Corder and Rachel Zoll - Associated Press

    Victims of clergy sex abuse upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests went to the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, seeking an investigation of the pope and top Vatican cardinals for possible crimes against humanity. Published September 13, 2011 Comments

  • Muslims share their faith

    By Andrea Billups - The Washington Times

    A 25-year-old Yemeni-American, Petra Alsoofy, sees the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a double-edged sword for Muslims in the U.S. The recent college graduate who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., illustrates her point with two stories from her life that gave her both pause and great hope. Published September 8, 2011 Comments

  • Struggling Dublin archdiocese considers tax on ebbing faithful

    By Jason Walsh - The Washington Times

    Ireland's deep recession came at the worst possible time for the country's largest Catholic Church district. Published August 29, 2011 Comments

  • Pope to youth: Resist secularism

    By Michael Elkin - Special to The Washington Times

    Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called on 1.5 million young people attending a Mass here to become missionaries and to resist secularism, as he ended the Catholic Church's four-day youth celebrations. Published August 21, 2011 Comments

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