Should Christians call God by the name "Allah"? At least one Catholic bishop in the Netherlands , Tiny Muskens, thinks so. "Allah is a very beautiful word for God," he recently told Dutch television. ...

The explanation is that only one of one God’s ‘names’ is a personal name; all the other ‘names’ are appellations that refer to one of God’s many attributes or character traits. As the Qur’an states: ...

Cape Cod, MA. If you google “Allah” and “Christian” and “Malaysia” together today, you will come up with a number of websites, including the BBC and Wall Street Journal, reporting the news today ...

To read Abd-Allah’s full essay “One God, Many Names,” go to the Nawawi Foundation’s Web site, www.nawawi.org; click on “Learning” and then on “Learn More.” An Islamic scholar spoke to a crowd of about ...

A proposal by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands that people of all faiths refer to God as "Allah" is not sitting well with the Catholic community. Tiny Muskens, an outgoing bishop who is ...

Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...

Allah can no longer be used by a Christian newspaper in Malaysia to refer to God after a landmark court ruling on Monday, reversing a decision made four years previously that maintained the term ...

A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with ...

Decision ends a 35-year-old government ban on the usage of four Arabic words by Christian publications. KUALA LUMPUR — A Malaysian court ruled Wednesday that non-Muslims can use the word Allah to ...