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Susan Fraser - Associated PressRobert Badenbieck – Associated Press
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined hundreds of worshipers Friday for the first Muslim prayers in 86 years inside Hagia Sophia.
FaithShort Take
Peter Dziedzic
Two symbolic sites, the Hagia Sophia and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, could serve as models for international and interreligious cooperation, writes Peter Dziedzic.
A young woman is pictured in a file photo near her hostel in Yangon, Myanmar. (CNS photo/Myat Thu Kyaw, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The appeal was signed by the more than 40 of the foremost religious figures of this majority-Buddhist state, including Cardinal Charles Maung Bo.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Unesco World Heritage site in Istanbul, founded as a Christian church in the 6th century, transformed into a mosque in the 15th century and then into a museum in 1934, will reopen as a mosque on July 24 with Friday prayers.
Apotheosis of St. Louis is a statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri, located in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park (photo: Wikimedia).
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Eve Tushnet
If our first instinct is to defend “the church,” have we really learned the lessons of the sexual abuse crisis?
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The appeal calls on believers in God worldwide to hold “a day for fasting, prayers, and supplications” on May 14.