The city of New York, it seems, is always in the news. From fashion and cuisine to finance and big business, this great city is often regarded as the quintessential American urban center unmatched by any other. It is not only an attractive option for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants entering the country each year, [...]
Now, more than ever, is the time for dialogue. The fires between New York City’s Muslim community and the New York Police Department have been stoked once again. Recent reports have revealed that the controversial film, “The Third Jihad”, which essentially claims Muslims are plotting a secret jihadist movement in the West, has been shown [...]
When our founding fathers, driven by religious persecution to a new continent, drafted the constitution, it was obvious they had in mind the religious and civil freedoms of every generation that lived after them. And for a while, as long as the country was unified in religious practice, tolerance was not that difficult to achieve. But [...]
This past month, I have been ashamed to be a young Catholic in Chicago. This is not because I deny the religion in which I was raised, not because I have given up my desire to reform the Church, but because my community has supported division and
misunderstanding in the name of “religious liberty.”
The controversy [...]
Across the country, the right to practice religion freely–and free of fear–is at risk. Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Sikh houses of worship have been singled out and attacked, and news of these stories often does not travel. By utilizing social media, however, we believe that local issues of religious freedom can quickly become national news [...]
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