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Why Egypt’s New Religious Freedoms Are Raising Concerns
Friday noon prayer at the al-Tawhid mosque in Cairo used to be led by a state-appointed imam.
Morocco’s Revolutionaries: The Crazy Kids Have Grown Up
“What if we offered a prayer for the soul of bin Laden?” The question was tossed into the meeting of the February 20 Movement like a hand grenade.
‘Decision Points’: What George W. Bush’s Memoir Reveals
Early on in his newly released memoir, George W. Bush writes with great credibility, and a welcome absence of histrionics, about his slow-motion turn toward faith
"A Moral Justification For War Exists"
THE ATTACKS of Sept. 11, 2001, sent religious people all over the world to their knees in prayer.
"His Principle of Peace Was Bogus"
What happened in January 1948? On Jan
Syria Protests: Will Friday Demonstrations Shake Assad?
Syria could very well learn its fate this Friday. According to a source from the country with close ties to the regime, if large-scale demonstrations break out after midday prayer in Syria’s two largest cities, Damascus and Aleppo, the regime will be faced with a stark choice: either crack down with unlimited violence, or meet the demonstrators’ demands.
Catholic Controversy: Is ‘Being’ Superior to ‘Substance’?
Back in Christianity’s early days, petty semantics could cause powerful schisms. A big reason the western and eastern churches split was a bitter dispute over the addition of three words, “and the Son” to the 4th-century statement of Christian belief, the Nicene Creed
Essay: Speech for A High School Graduate
Your official commencement speaker tackles the big themes, tells you to abjure greed, to play fair, to serve your community, to know thyself. Your more personally devoted commencement speaker agrees with all that
Iran’s Rafsanjani, in Speech, Shies Away from Confrontation
Iranians have been waiting for weeks to hear from former President Ayatullah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. At the height of the demonstrations on Tehran’s streets, when hundreds of thousands of people called for a do-over of the June 12 presidential election officially won by incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many Iranians have wondered if Rafsanjani, one of the Islamic Republic’s most powerful men and a leading supporter of defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, would mount a challenge to Ahmadinejad’s main patron, the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Khamenei. So when word spread that Rafsanjani would deliver the keynote address at Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, one of the country’s highest-profile platforms, many opposition supporters hoped his speech would provide new impetus to the protest movement