Jer Swigart with Global Immersion will lead an Everyday Peacemaking Workshop at Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church on March 29 to equip Spokanites for peacebuilding.
The Idaho state Legislature is currently embroiled in an ideological battle on whether to allow health care professionals and entities to opt out of participating in nonemergency procedures that would violate their sincerely held moral and religious beliefs.
With a new temple location and a new full-time priest, Spokane's Hindu Temple & Cultural Center had much to celebrate March 15, when they commemorated Holi.
The Diocese of Boise condemns Idaho's firing squad bill, reaffirming the Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty, emphasizing mercy and human dignity.
The Purim festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.
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(RNS) By the authors’ count, the Quran has been translated into English 212 times since the 17th century — but never like this.
Two friends, one Muslim and one Christian, have just published a Quran for English speakers to help fulfill a sacred shared mission: to show people of the world’s largest and second-largest faith groups how much their holy books have in common.
“Most of the tension that exists in the West in the post-9/11 era is because Christians fear Muslims and their book, the Quran,” said Safi Kaskas, the Muslim co-author of “The Qur’an With References to the Bible.”
Lauren Markoe covered government and features as a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years before joining the Religion News Service staff as a national correspondent in 2011. She previously was Washington correspondent for The State (Columbia, S.C.)
