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How will students at evangelical colleges make friends of other faiths?

Posted on December 4, 2019

Medium By Kevin Singer December 4, 2019 Kevin Singer is a PhD Student in higher education and Research Associate for IDEALS at North Carolina State University. According to the new IDEALS national report on interfaith friendship, Evangelical Protestant institutions are negatively associated with first year college students making close friends of other faiths. “Students at Continue Reading »

Promoting Jewish-Muslim ties, Rabbi to lead first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman

Posted on December 3, 2019

AZERTAC December 03, 2019 Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding and senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York, will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year, according to TPS news agency. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan where participants will meet with high-level government and public officials, Continue Reading »

NY Rabbi to lead first synagogue mission to Oman, Azerbaijan

Posted on December 3, 2019

Arutz Sheva Staff December 03, 2019 15:52 Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY, to lead delegation to Muslim nations. Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), will lead the first synagogue mission to Continue Reading »

Give thanks religions are talking to each other again

Posted on November 27, 2019

The New York Daily News By Marc Schneier, Sayyid Syeed and Bob Roberts November 27, 2019 As hundreds of millions of adherents of our three interconnected Abrahamic traditions — Judaism, Islam and Christianity — sit down at Thanksgiving dinner tables across America, many of us will devoutly give thanks for the presence in their lives Continue Reading »

Ein Rabbi öffnet verschlosseneTüren am Golf

Posted on November 17, 2019

Kleine Zeitung Von Ingo Hasewend November 17, 2019 Dass mit Franziskus der erste Papst die arabische Halbinsel besuchte, war eine Sensation. Ebenso die Annäherung der Golfstaaten an Israel. Dahinter steht auch ein Rabbi mit Familienwurzeln in Wien: Marc Schneier Als Papst Franziskus im Februar die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate besuchte, wurde dies als Sensation gefeiert. Erstmals Continue Reading »

Inside the newsroom: Seeking an answer to a simple question

Posted on November 10, 2019

The Gulf Times November 10, 2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Monday I greeted His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa of Saudi Arabia as he came to sit before the Deseret News editorial board. This Muslim leader is secretary-general of the Muslim World League and was in Utah to meet with leaders of The Church of Jesus Continue Reading »

Inside the newsroom: This week we sought an answer to a simple question to a very difficult problem

Posted on November 9, 2019

Deseret News By Doug Wilks November 9, 2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Monday I greeted His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa of Saudi Arabia as he came to sit before the Deseret News editorial board. This Muslim leader is secretary-general of the Muslim World League and was in Utah to meet with leaders of The Church Continue Reading »

Evangelical-Muslim conference brings college students together to solve ‘The Greatest Interreligious Challenge of our Time’

Posted on November 5, 2019

Newsweek By Hunter Moyler November 5, 2019 Muslim and Evangelical Christian students convened at a conference at Wheaton College over the weekend to explore what they could do to ameliorate relations between their two religious groups, a situation the event’s organizers called “the greatest interreligious challenge of our time.” The conference, which took place on Continue Reading »

Christians Defend Cultural Heritage in Muslim-Majority Countries

Posted on November 2, 2019

Black Christian News November 2, 2019 The grainy footage is unmistakable. The interpretation isn’t. And the implications could reverberate from Moscow to Tehran to Tel Aviv. Dozens of men with sledgehammers pound slabs of stone in an otherwise empty mountainous field. Filmed in 2005 by the prelate of northern Iran’s Armenian church, Bishop Nshan Topouzian, Continue Reading »

‘Dialogue’ with Muslims should be about the risen Jesus … period

Posted on November 1, 2019

OneNewsNow By Steve Jordahl November 1, 2019 A Christian apologist and author says a weekend conference designed to promote dialogue between followers of Muhammad and followers of Jesus Christ should have a single focus: the life, death, resurrection, and saving grace of Christ. Hundreds of students are meeting on the campus of Wheaton College near Continue Reading »

Hundreds to attend conference at Wheaton College to advance evangelical-Muslim dialogue

Posted on October 31, 2019

According to the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, ‘Evangelical Christian and Muslim relations is the greatest interreligious challenge in America today.’”

Season of Twinning: Muslims, Jews Team Up Against Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism

Posted on October 30, 2019

Thousands of Muslims and Jews are preparing to hold another Season of Twinning programme, headed by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an organisation specialising in Muslim-Jewish relations, in coordination with Saudi Arabia’s Mecca-based Muslim World League.