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. ...

KAULA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The name of God is sacred to Muslims, and the Arabic word for God, “Allah,” is universally invoked in Islamic prayers and practices. But are Muslims the only ones who can use ...

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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 ...