A Coptic Christian woman in Egypt is taking on the country's unequal Islamic inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Huda Nasrallah, a 40-year-old human rights lawyer, has ...

“Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.” (Jn 13,8) These are words Christ told Peter at the Last Supper when the latter refused at first for his feet to be washed by Christ. And so, ...

Slaveholders, segregationists, all of us. Rarely do I leave a reading experience as delighted and provoked as when I finished, simultaneously, James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree and John ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has warned that Europe risks forfeiting its "Christian inheritance" and that an "Islamic conquest" could be in its future. Speaking in the Cathedral of Vienna on Sunday, ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has warned that Europe risks forfeiting its “Christian inheritance” and that an “Islamic conquest” could be in its future. Speaking in the Cathedral of Vienna on Sunday, ...

Coptic lawyer Huda Nasrallah may have won a great victory for Christian women in Egypt. Last week, a Cairo court ruled in her favor, dividing the family inheritance equally between her and her two ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

A Coptic Christian woman in Egypt says she has won a legal battle to receive the same inheritance as her brothers. Under the Islamic Sharia inheritance laws the country mainly relies on, female heirs ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...