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This Man is a Good Man By Gabrielle Bremer “Get on the train!” I yelled to Cameo as we ran down the concrete platform. We were slow from the weight of the bags on our backs and the heat of late morning. The train was about to depart the station Continue Reading

Why Trump continues to be successful among evangelical Christians By Gabrielle Bremer WASHINGTON –Despite the president’s three marriages, a scandal with adult film actress, Stormy Daniels and sexual assault allegations, evangelical Christians continue to support President Donald Trump. The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and the appointment of over 200 federal Continue Reading

Leaders testify before the Ways and Means subcommittee on child poverty WASHINGTON ̶ In an informational meeting by the Ways and Means subcommittee on worker and family support, leaders in children’s health, family services and poverty studies testified on fighting child poverty in the United States, and asked Congress to Continue Reading

Empty choir stalls illustrate the decline of religious life in the Catholic Church WASHINGTON — Nearly all of the choir stalls in St. Anselm’s Abbey remained empty at the start of Mass. Only a handful of monks sat where a lively community of over 30 once flourished in the 1960s. Continue Reading

Finding spirituality and a community in the murder capital of the US WASHINGTON  ̶  For Nii-Odoi Glover, his period of investigation outside the Bahá’í faith was sparked by living in the “murder capital” of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s. “Being 16 or 17-years-old and having a friend of yours get Continue Reading

Shaza Saker, founder of Hummustown, explains her recent trip to Syria and what it means for her employees. “Four of my Syrian refugees are thinking about going back,” said Shaza Saker, a Syrian-Italian woman. We sat at a small cafe near the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations office Continue Reading

The sound of the 6:30am prayer call pulled me from my restless sleep. At first, I was alarmed by the strange sounds and syllables echoing off the street walls. Then I remembered I was in Turkey, a country where 97.8% of its residents are Muslim. I listened to the beautiful Continue Reading