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FORT WORTH – The chaplain at a Christian university in Texas on Tuesday defended the university’s decision to set aside a room on campus for Muslim students to pray, saying it was the Biblical thing do to. The Rev. Dr. Robert Kenji Flowers, chaplain at Texas Wesleyan University and also an adjunct world religion professor there, said in an interview with The College Fix that recent controversy over the room – which is a little over 1-years-old - came as a surprise to him. Debate over the room flared after a campus news report about the room was published last...

CRUCIFIXES, Bibles and all other Christian symbols have been banned from a hospital's chapel when it is not being used for a church service. The Mosman Daily has learnt that Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney has bes been ordered to remove Christian content by New South Wales bureaucrats to avoid offending Muslims, Hindus or other non-Christian believers who may want to pray in the chapel. Hospital staff say that while the chapel was built for Christians, they now want the chapel to be completely non-denominational. An inspection of the chapel last week by the Daily found no trace of...

Muslims have been pushing for several years to have their holy month of Ramadan acknowledged in the public schools. That task is more urgent this fall because of tensions and curiosity created on Sept. 11, local Muslim leaders and secular educators say. In response, some local high school classes will tour a mosque during Ramadan, which begins Friday with the sighting of the new moon. A Muslim teacher explained her holiday to her elementary school this week. An interfaith service is scheduled to bring an imam, a Roman Catholic bishop, and rabbi together in front of the students of a ...