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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…

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…

“Earlier this week the Air Force announced the course called ‘Christian Just War Theory’ had been indefinitely suspended,” writes Michael Stone for the Humanist Examiner.  “The course had been part of the curriculum for future nuclear launch officers for more than 20 years.” “Taught by chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base, the course used scripture from both…

A report released on Tuesday said that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to President Barack Obama’s formula for peace with Palestine based on the pre-1967 lines with land swaps if Palestine drops its bid for statehood in September. It’s expected that it would be considered the starting point of the peace talks if Netanyahu did…
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