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Religion

Interfaith efforts invite Utahns to learn about other religions

By Kristine Hoyt
February 20, 2017 12:00 AM
Religious and interfaith groups have organized events to help Utahns get to know the diverse faiths and believers represented in the state.
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World

Social media useful in preventing Islamophobia, raising awareness

By Kjersten Johnson
December 02, 2016 12:00 AM
Scrolling through Twitter after an ISIS-related terrorist attack yields tweet after tweet defending the religion of Islam — and a slew of negative, incriminatory and degrading Islamophobic tweets. Many of the positive statements are retweeted and praised, but so are the Islamophobic messages.
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Local

News roundup: Tuesday, Nov. 29

November 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Local
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Local

New church website encourages LDS women to serve refugees

By Alex E. J. Mohammad
March 29, 2016 12:00 AM
IWasAStranger.lds.org is a website launched in conjunction with an effort encouraging women to help refugees around the world. (Mormon Newsroom)
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Local

Millennials keeping their faith

By Steven Potter
February 16, 2016 12:00 AM
The wavering of millennials in America’s religious landscape may not only be an issue, but also a question begging an answer. Where is everyone going? And what’s working to bring them back? To find answers, a team of Universe reporters spent a semester talking to religious experts around the country and to millennials themselves. What they found is presented in ongoing articles.
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Religion

Mostafa Al-Jadani: A faithful Muslim's Provo experience

By Taylor Neuffer
January 06, 2016 12:00 AM
Living in a predominately Mormon community with Mormon roommates isn't a common occurrence for many Muslims, but for Mustafa Al-Jadani, it is a reality. Al-Jadani, 21, is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, from the city of Jeddah. He has a dream of getting a bachelors degree in electrical engineering in the United States, and he is currently a student at PACE international school learning English.
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Life

BYU alum takes detour, travels between graduation and career

By Bailey Fruit
November 09, 2015 12:00 AM
BYU friends Joe Moxon Jon Gillespie, McKay Scoffield, Logan Foutz and Scott Peroon ride camels in Egypt. Scoffield visited 17 countries this summer. (McKay Scoffield)
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Religion

World Congress of Families IX: Views on traditional families, marriages are similar across denominations

By Bailey Fruit
November 03, 2015 12:00 AM
Despite vast differences in theology and religious practice among participants at the World Congress of Families, five speakers from uniquely different faiths spoke of their view on family from the perspective of their faith, finding similarities across tradition.
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Religion

Parliament of the World's Religions: Heroism embodied in Mandela, King

By Cassidy Hansen
October 18, 2015 12:00 AM
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell recalled how her granddaughter was asking her family for help in learning about civil rights activist Martin Luther King, when her family told her that she should ask her grandmother instead, because she knew King.
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Local

Parliament of the World's Religions: Interfaith dialogue and derailing mass murder

By Kjersten Johnson
October 18, 2015 12:00 AM
(Left to right) Rita George-Tvrtković, Rana Lahham and Aneta Krzycka from Benedictine University described how interfaith dialogue has made their school more inclusive at the Parliament of the World's Religions. (Kjersten Johnson)
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Nation

Parliament of the World's Religions: Powerful women can and do change the world

By Kjersten Johnson
October 17, 2015 12:00 AM
Chaplain Jennifer Wright greets participants at Friday morning's Faith in Woman Plenary. Wright has been a member of the SHEROES for four years. (Kjersten Johnson)
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State

Parliament of the World's Religions: Mending young hearts, healing the legacy of trauma

By Jenna Barratt
October 16, 2015 12:00 AM
Young students take notes at a youth session on religious tolerance at the Parliament of the World's Religions international conference on Friday in Salt Lake City. They are among the largest group of youth participants in the Parliament's 122 year history. (Jenna Barratt)
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Campus Events

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha at BYU

By Karma Hammouz
September 24, 2015 12:00 AM
Zach Rowley takes a picture of traditional Eid al-Adha food while he was in the Middle East. (Zach Rowley)
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Campus News

A Muslim goes to church

By Karma Hammouz
September 17, 2015 12:00 AM
Karma Hammouz is an Arab-Muslim from Jerusalem currently attending BYU.
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Campus Events

Islam: A growing religion that needs greater understanding 

By Kjersten Johnson
August 23, 2015 12:00 AM
An Arabic Quran at the Salt Lake Khadija Mosque. (Lucy Schouten)
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Religion

Charlie Hebdo: High stakes when satire meets globalization

January 12, 2015 12:00 AM
These are dark days for those who want to believe that the pen is mightier than the sword.
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World

2 brothers now the most wanted men in France

January 08, 2015 12:00 AM
PARIS (AP) — A lover of rap music turned aspiring Muslim holy warrior and his older brother are suddenly the most wanted men in France, suspected of the armed onslaught on a newspaper office that claimed a dozen lives and horrified most of the world.
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Art

"Treasured Truths": Artists explore similarities between Islam and Christianity

By Katelyn Johns
October 09, 2012 12:00 AM
BYU professors and alumni, along with other artists, lend their skills to a special exhibit allowing students to explore little-understood symbols and images found in both Islamic and Christian art.
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