Miami, the Gateway to the Americas, has long been an entry point to a nation of immigrants. Geographically, the city’s location on the southeastern coast of Florida has made it a prime location for encounter, from sixteenth century meeting of Spanish colonists and the Tequesta people living in the region to more recent waves of refugees from the Caribbean and Latin America who have made Miami home. The “Magic City” saw rapid growth in the late nineteenth century, ballooning from a small town in the late 1880s to a bustling metropolis with a population of over 400,000 a few decades later...
From the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue to verbal acts of hatred and discrimination, it’s clear that bigotry and intolerance plague our society. Many would argue that forging strong interfaith relations is perhaps more important now than ever before. To break down barriers and comb
Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said although some resent the U.S. Catholic bishops’ advocacy on behalf of “illegals” - undocumented immigrants - “we stand in a proud moral tradition.”
With an increasing number of Americans leaving religion behind, the University of Miami has received a donation in late April from a wealthy atheist to endow what it says is the nation’s first academic chair “for the study of atheism, humanism and secular ethics.”
Samsul Maarif and Ahmad Muttaqin, graduate students in Religious Studies at Florida International University, researched mosques and Muslim study centers... Read more about Samsul Maarif and Ahmad Muttaqin
