In my previous post I suggested that the God of ancient Israel -- known to Israelites as Yahweh -- lived for centuries in a polytheistic milieu and may well have had a goddess wife named Asherah. This ...

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 ...

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. ...

Archaeological inscriptions across Arabia reveal that Allah was known and worshipped centuries before the rise of Islam.

In the days of Prophet Abraham, the religions of the Near East and India had hundreds of different gods, with hundreds of names for their different gods, but for those religions that trace their ...

Whether "Allah" can refer to the Christian God is not just a burning question in Malaysia; it also drives relations between Islam and Christianity globally. For Muslims, the question of whether ...

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 ...

Malaysia’s highest court has rejected a challenge from the Catholic Church seeking to overturn a ban on non-Muslims using the word “Allah” to refer to God. But after the Federal Court announced its ...

A Roman Catholic bishop has proposed that Dutch Christians call God “Allah,” said the Apeldoorn Reformatorisch Dagblad in an editorial. Tiny Muskens, bishop of Breda, dropped that bombshell on us last ...