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Spanish priest commissions graffiti work to brighten up his church
Father Ramon Borr decided his Spanish church wasn’t quite as lively as he wanted. So he found a couple of graffiti artists and told them to liven things up. And he didn’t just give them a hidden wall — he gave them the dome over the altar as their canvas, perhaps the most prominent place in the church.
A Ramadan Roadtrip Around The US
Two men are spending Ramadan in 30 different mosques in 30 different states for all 30 days of the month of fasting. They’re traveling 13,000 miles, from Alaska to New York City, and are speaking with us today from South Carolina, where they’re a little more than halfway through their trip. What they’ve found is […]
A Muslim Playwright Changes the Script
As Congress holds hearings this week on the radicalization of American Muslims, a Pakistani-American playwright is trying to flip the script. Wajahat Ali, who earned raves for his post-9/11 family drama The Domestic Crusaders, told Kurt Andersen, “It would be similar to me asking Italian-Americans, ‘hey, I heard there are lots of Mafioso-types in your […]