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Spanish priest commissions graffiti work to brighten up his church

Lifestyle & Belief

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.

First LGBT-friendly mosque opens in France

Lifestyle & Belief

Survivor tries to make sense of aftermath of Norway attacks as trial continues

Global Politics

Albino, white, Muslim, & rapper: Brother Ali

Arts, Culture & Media

Spanish Priest Commissions Graffiti for Church

Arts, Culture & Media

Iranian Rapper Shahin Najafi Faces Fatwa for ‘Blasphemous’ Song

Global Politics

Rapper Shahin Najafi received a fatwa this past week for his controversial new song, Naqi. An Islamic website posted a $100,000 bounty on his life. But what’s really the controversy?

One Survivor Speaks Out: What it Means to be an Ethnic Minority in Norway

Global Politics

The World’s Laura Lynch takes a look at what it is like to be an ethnic minority these days, before and after mass murderer Anders Breivik went on his rampage.

The World

Generation 9/11: why I enlisted

Conflict & Justice

This week, in honor of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, we’re talking with and about young people who came of age at the time of the 09/11 attacks. Today we’re looking at how 9/11 factored into the choice two young people made to join the U.S. Army.

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

Global Politics

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 […]