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It was not your ordinary dinner. Whirling dervishes twirled while waiters offered candied dates as appetizers. And there, sitting together were Turkey’s Chief Jewish Rabbi İsak Haleva, Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomeos and Istanbul’s Muslim Mufti Mustafa Çağrıcı. The event was Tuesday night’s iftar dinner hosted by Istanbul’s Galata Mevlevihanesi Museum. At sunset daily during the month…

Religious and social leaders say Dayton, Ohio, needs prayer to move forward as a community. “The move is in response to the uproar stemming from the death of Kylen English,” reports Mark Bruce for WHIO-TV. ” The Dayton man died when jumped out of a police cruiser and off the Salem Avenue bridge.” “This is a time when…

Wheaton College  in Chicago’s west suburbs has been ranked for the second time in three years as the least “LGBT-friendly college” in America, according to the Princeton Review. LGBT means “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual.”  Wheaton also made the publication’s list of America’s “Best Colleges.” The homosexuality advocacy site ChicagoPride.com reports that the Princeton Review bases its…

Stephen Hawking says God had nothing to do with creating the universe and that the “laws of science” explain how the universe created itself from nothing. He says he has no problem with the idea that the universe just popped into being from nothingness. In the premiere episode of the Discovery Channel’s new science series…
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