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Brother Honors Legacy Of Relatives Lost In Chapel Hill, N.C., Shooting

6:41pm December 21, 2015

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Farris Barakat, who lost relatives in the Chapel Hill, N.C., shooting. He recently visited a Syrian refugee camp to honor his brother's legacy.

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NPR's Steve Inskeep interviews President Obama at the White House.

'Sometimes Progress Is A Little Uncomfortable': President Obama On Identity Politics

1:37pm December 21, 2015

by Leah Donnella

In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Obama spoke at length on the subject of identity. The question of who we are as Americans, Obama said, has been a focus since the country's founding.

Pope Francis said Christians and Muslims worship the same God — but not everyone agrees.

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Do Christians And Muslims Worship The Same God?

6:40am December 21, 2015

by Tom Gjelten

A Wheaton College professor was placed on leave for declaring, in a gesture of solidarity, that Christians and Muslims "worship the same God." But do they? The answer may depend on whom you ask.

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Interfaith Round-Table: A Conversation On Theology

5:04pm December 20, 2015

Jonathan Brown of Georgetown University, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission and Karen Danielson of the Muslim American Society talk to NPR's Michel Martin.

After A Church Visit, One Muslim Seeks A New Kind Of Attention To His Faith

8:53am December 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

A Muslim man posted a now-viral picture of himself praying at a Mormon church. He and the friend who extended the invitation share how they are bridging religious boundaries during this divisive time.

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Pope Francis caresses a baby at a charity in Rome on Friday. In keeping with his focus on the poor, he celebrated Mass at a soup kitchen at Rome's main train station.

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Pope Francis Wraps Up A Big Year, Prepares For A 'Year Of Mercy'

10:58am December 19, 2015

by Sylvia Poggioli

This year alone, he visited the Central African Republic, issued a major environment document and chaired a contentious meeting of world bishops on family issues. What's next for the Pope?

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GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee courts the religious vote at the Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Manning, South Carolina.

Are You An Evangelical? Are You Sure?

8:14am December 19, 2015

by Danielle Kurtzleben

"Evangelical" is one of the most poorly defined terms in the U.S. political conversation.

About two-dozen Muslim women attended a recent self-defense class in New York City.

Some Muslim Women Are Taking Self-Defense Into Their Own Hands

8:08am December 19, 2015

by Alexandra Starr

Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise, and Muslim women wearing hijabs can be particularly vulnerable. That has prompted two women in New York to organize an all-female class for observant Muslims.

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Evangelical College Suspends Professor For Showing Solidarity With Muslims

7:04pm December 18, 2015

by Odette Yousef

Wheaton College, an Evangelical school outside of Chicago, has been roiled by questions about Christianity's posture toward Islam and academic freedom at religious schools. An associate professor who vowed recently to wear a headscarf in solidarity with Muslims was suspended from her job this week. The college says it's not because of the headscarf, but because of theological questions raised by a Facebook post in which she cited Pope Francis's recent statement that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.

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Construction has begun on the Tri-Faith Initiative's new campus on the edge of of Omaha, Neb. Here, a view of Temple Israel.

In America's Heartland, Building One Home For Three Faiths

1:18pm December 18, 2015

by Frank Morris

Three faith communities in Omaha, Neb. — one Christian, one Jewish, one Muslim — are leaving their old places of worship and building a new, single campus for their mosque, synagogue and church.

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