IONA in the News Measure intended to improve city’s reputationWarren officials and local religious leaders want the public to feel that the city is a good place to live and work and that everyone is welcome in Macomb County’s most populated community.The Warren City Council has adopted a resolution re-affirming the “American core values” of…
IONA in the News Steve Elturk is from Detroit, one of our interfaith peacemakers with whom I’ve shared a long journey. When his mosque was being built in Warren (where I used to live) it was a target of bigotry and resistance. But Steve and many others joined together to not only allow the mosque…
IONA in the News A Warren mosque has been so successful and accepted in the community that it is looking to expand in a new location.Imam Steve Elturk, of the Islamic Organization of North America on Ryan Road near 12 Mile Road, said during the mosque’s second annual open house Saturday that its membership has…
IONA in the News Dr. Israr Ahmed, (April 26, 1932-April 14, 2010) died in Pakistan on April 14. He was a Pakistan-based Muslim religious scholar followed particularly in South Asia and also in the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, Western Europe and North America. Born in Hissar, (today’s Haryana) in India, the second…
IONA in the News Could Jesus Christ become a focal point for both the followers of Islam and Christianity to work toward social change? asked a Christian scholar Thursday night.An audience of 40 people, including a Christian scholar and the president of the Islamic Organization of North America, met to discuss how Christianity and Islam…
IONA in the News DETROIT – Fr. Jeffrey Day assured area religious leaders on March 10 of his own and Archbishop Allen Vigneron’s commitment to continue the work of fostering respect and cooperation between the Catholic Church and other faith communities.”Archbishop Vigneron wants to continue what Cardinal (Adam) Maida did, what the late Fr. John…
IONA in the News DETROIT — A young Nigerian man, wearing a white T-shirt and tennis shoes, did not speak much Friday during his first public court hearing to face charges of trying to ignite a chemical-laden explosive on a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Muslim leaders and other followers of Islam showed up…
IONA in the News A program that examines the different cultures represented in Macomb County and the religions that drive them returns in February with the first section, African Americans and the Black Church.Other sessions will follow on Jews and Judaism; Islam and Muslims; Hispanics and Roman Catholicism; and Chaldeans and the Chaldean Catholic Church.Prompted…
IONA in the News Warren–January 2–IONA held its first annual Islam conference this past Saturday evening at IONA.Two speakers were invited to the event, Imam Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR Michigan, and Amir Abdul Malik Ali, a Muslim activist from Oakland California. They both spoke on secularism and American democracy, Dawud Walif focusing on…
IONA in the News Detroit — A large number of Muslims, Arab Americans and Nigerian Americans are standing together today outside a federal courthouse to condemn the alleged actions of a suspect accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest flight on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian authorities say attempted to bomb…
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