Should Christians call God by the name "Allah"? At least one Catholic bishop in the Netherlands , Tiny Muskens, thinks so. "Allah is a very beautiful word for God," he recently told Dutch television. ...

A proposal by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands that people of all faiths refer to God as "Allah" is not sitting well with the Catholic community. Tiny Muskens, an outgoing bishop who is ...

To read Abd-Allah’s full essay “One God, Many Names,” go to the Nawawi Foundation’s Web site, www.nawawi.org; click on “Learning” and then on “Learn More.” An Islamic scholar spoke to a crowd of about ...

Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...

Allah can no longer be used by a Christian newspaper in Malaysia to refer to God after a landmark court ruling on Monday, reversing a decision made four years previously that maintained the term ...

A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with ...

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The Hebrew Prophet Malachi (2:5 New International translation) states: “My covenant was with him (each Messenger Abraham, Jacob, Moses and David), a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them (the ...

Maury County, Tennessee is in the heart of the Bible Belt. So it’s understandable why the local church ladies got all shook up when they discovered that school children had been forced to declare, ...

Muslims in Malaysia have burnt churches in protest at Christians calling their God Allah, but there is a precedent, says Christopher Howse Churches have been burnt down in Malaysia in a row over ...