Funeral services for Libby Clark, a trailblazing Black female journalist, food and religion writer for the Los Angeles Sentinel for 50 years and editor of the “Black Family Reunion Cookbook” were held Jan. 30 in Los Angeles. She was 94. Services were held for her at the Chapel of Roses at the Simpson Funeral Home […]
Category: Religion
Posted inAfro Briefs, Religion
Century-old Afro-Brazilian Religion Under Threat
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rosa Cardoso has practiced the Afro-Brazilian religion of Umbanda almost all of her 89 years, yet she hasn’t stopped hiding her faith from the rest of the world. The door to the temple she runs in a middle-class neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro sits behind a plain, dilapidated door and […]
Posted inObituaries - Baltimore, Religion
Edward Z. Watson Jr., 94
Edward Zarius Watson JR., a man of distinction, strength and courage, was born on Feb. 3, 1917 to the late Hannah Allen and Edward Zarius Watson Sr., in Earleigh Heights, Anne Arundel County, Md. After losing his mother at the age of four, his father remarried and his stepmother, Bertha Wright, raised him as if […]
Posted inReligion, Washington D.C. News
Relief, Anger at Washington-Area Mosque Where al-Awlaki Preached
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over the death of the influential al-Qaida figure who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American. […]
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Preacher Calls Oprah Precursor to the Antichrist
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey may play a role in the coming of the Antichrist—at least, according to Mike Bickle, founder and executive director of the radical and controversial International House of Prayer. A video of Bickle comparing Oprah to the Antichrist was uncovered earlier this week by the People for the American Way Right […]
Posted inNational News, Religion
T.D. Jakes Chastises Franklin Graham for Obama Statements
Megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes this weekend denounced the Rev. Franklin Graham for questioning President Obama’s faith in a recent television interview. “I find it insulting,” Jakes said May 15 on TV One’s “Washington Watch with Roland Martin,” also accusing Graham of hypocrisy. “We didn’t question the Christianity of President Bush when he said he […]
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President Obama Names Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 14 as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the Department of State’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will be sworn-in May 11. The first woman and person of African-American descent to hold this position, Johnson Cook was appointed by President Barack Obama, and […]
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DOJ Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Muslim Woman
The Justice Department’s involvement in a lawsuit against an Illinois school district on the grounds that the school system violated the civil rights of a Muslim woman has triggered a debate among lawyers and legal scholars about whether the administration is taking the proper role in the dispute. . Safoorah Khan, a teacher in the […]
Posted inReligion, Washington D.C. News
Local Islamic Leaders Call Congressional Hearing a ‘Witch Hunt’
The athan, a Muslim call to prayer, sounded throughout Masjid Muhammad in the Washington, D.C.’s northwest as it has for decades to a quiet group of predominantly African Americans. “Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar (God is great. God is great),” the melodious chant would begin. It was time for Jumah, Friday congregational prayer, the gathering that […]
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iPhone App Exists for Catholic Confessions
Need to prepare for confessional or study the sacrament? Now, there’s an app for that. The mobile applications company Little iApps has teamed with two Catholic priests to create “Confession: A Roman Catholic App.” The app, now available for download on iTunes, does not absolve users from guilt itself. Rather, it’s designed to be used […]
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Freshman Fla. Rep. West Stirs Controversy over Anti-Islamic Comments
Newly-seated Congressman Allen West (R.-Fla.) is facing a controversy following abrasive comments about the Islamic religion. The Tea Party-backed conservative, in an interview on “The Shalom Show,” a public affairs program airing on the JLTV cable channel, told producer Richard Peritz that Islam was the “antithesis” of America’s founding principles. At the outset of the […]
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Raynard Jackson…The Flag of Hypocrisy
I am amazed that the controversy surrounding the proposed Muslim mosque and community center in New York City at ground zero is still going strong. America has turned into a country where if you don’t agree with someone, you are painted as a bad person. This is exactly what is going on in New York […]