More than 45,000 people packed Angel Stadium on Saturday night for the annual Harvest Crusade, an evangelistic event led by ...

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The Health Department’s Christian Crusade. The religious right has infiltrated the office of Health and Human Services, and reproductive rights are the first target By Tessa Stuart.

The message is clear: come for the salvation, stay for the culture war. Behind the smoke machines and soft-rock worship sets ...

Defending Christians. Pope Urban II and other preachers of the Crusades wanted to defend Christian society. In launching the First Crusade, Urban reportedly exhorted his listeners, "You must carry ...

Of course, a Christian crusade in response to jihad would be just fine with many Saudis and Gulf Arabs. They don’t care about the suffering of individual Muslims — only about Islam.

He seems to be arguing that it’s nonsense to speak of Islam as a quietistic religion of peace that was set upon by bigoted Christians in the Crusades. And in that, he is correct. Islam spread by ...

R elating to the military expeditions undertaken primarily by the Church and European Christians through the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to reclaim the Holy Land, the Crusades mark a chapter in ...

But were the Crusades, military expeditions by Christian knights to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims who had overrun these lands where Jesus had walked, preached, and died, unjust wars?

The history of Western involvement in the Middle East began with the Crusades some 900 years ago. NPR's Mike Shuster begins a special six-part series on the troubled history.

By their own lights, the Crusades were remarkably successful. In a series of military struggles that had the church’s blessing, armed expeditions extended and reinforced the influence of Latin ...