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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

Cape Cod, MA. If you google “Allah” and “Christian” and “Malaysia” together today, you will come up with a number of websites, including the BBC and Wall Street Journal, reporting the news today ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly 200 years non-Muslim residents of present-day Malaysia used the Arabic and Bahasa word "Allah" to refer to God. Seven years ago, the government began an unnecessary and provocative push to ...