Photo Credit: Seattle Times Original article published in the Seattle Times on 01/17/2016 Fifteen-year old Zion Lourdes Perez is co-founder and president of the Muslim Student Association at Franklin High School located in Seattle. Though Perez was raised Catholic, the teen says she wanted to … [Read more...] about In Seattle, Catholic Teen Starts Muslim Student Association
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Muslims and Catholic Share Similar Outlooks On Charity
Photo Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images Original article published in the Washington Post on 02/03/2016 Washington Post wanted to find out what the Muslim and Catholic communities thought about their charitable donations, so they conducted 218 interviews in Catholic parishes and Muslim … [Read more...] about Muslims and Catholic Share Similar Outlooks On Charity
U.S. Catholic-Muslim Dialogue Launches
Photo Credit: Catholic Convert Original article published in Religion News Service on 02/08/2016 Propelled by the latest round of anti-Islamic sentiment in America, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has announced the forming of a new National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue group. Bishop … [Read more...] about U.S. Catholic-Muslim Dialogue Launches
Pope Offers Interfaith Message for CAR
Photo Credit: Vice Original article published in Vice on 11/30/2015 During his tour of the war-ridden Central African Republic, Pope Francis stopped by a Muslim neighborhood where people greeted the religious leader with hand-made signs declaring “Yes to inter-religious dialogue.” Pope … [Read more...] about Pope Offers Interfaith Message for CAR
Bishop Calls On Catholics To Combat Anti-Islamic Bigotry
Image Credit: HUB Original article published in the Catholic News on 02/22/2016 In a keynote address last month at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace, Bishop Robert W. McElroy encouraged his Catholic constituents “to recognize and confront the ugly tide of … [Read more...] about Bishop Calls On Catholics To Combat Anti-Islamic Bigotry