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

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 ...

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 'Allah' ruling is as ridiculous as a UK law saying that 'God' is a Christian designation, and other religions can't use it "Allah" means God, unless you are a non-Muslim Malaysian, in which case ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...