Manya Brachear Pashman – Page 11

An outdoor garden space is reflected in glass walls of an auditorium Nov. 22, 2016, at Willow Creek Community Church's North Shore campus in Glenview.

World renowned architect designs North Shore church

June 8, 2018 at 10:27 p.m.

When world renowned architect Adrian Smith begins to draft the scheme for one of his towering buildings, he and his wife, Nancy, get on their knees and pray. Most of...

Chicago Muslims give thanks, 5,000 turkeys

June 9, 2018 at 12:14 a.m.

As a line of schoolchildren obediently marched past the canary yellow lockers Tuesday morning at Woodlawn Community School, two more lines had formed at the end of the hallway —...

Archbishop Blase Cupich’s influence to grow with elevation to cardinal

June 9, 2018 at 1:35 a.m.

Not long after Blase Cupich was brought in to lead the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago two years ago, he summoned more than 500 priests to a banquet hall in...

Chicago Archbishop Cupich to be elevated to rank of cardinal

June 9, 2018 at 12:07 p.m.

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich stood before hundreds in Holy Name Cathedral for 11 a.m. Sunday Mass and started his homily by saying he had news for those who might have...

Zahra Saylawlal, left, works with the South Asian American Policy and Research Institute and is helping register Iffat Ansari to vote at a Food and Fun Fair at the Muslim Education Center on Aug. 21, 2016, in Morton Grove.

Campaign rhetoric against Muslims spurs mosques to get out the vote

May 22, 2019 at 10:23 p.m.

When Imam Nazim Mangera arrived at Chicago's Muslim Community Center in December, he immediately encountered a feeling of deja vu. In his last months as leader of a Vancouver mosque,...

Dr. Naveed Sadiq, who will be voting for Donald Trump in this year's election, stands July 15, 2016, in Chicago.

Muslims for Trump speak up amid criticism

June 11, 2018 at 9:36 p.m.

To elude reprimands from his Muslim brethren, Waqas Khan, of Effingham, hasn't bought a baseball cap, bumper sticker or T-shirt advertising Donald J. Trump for president. Until now, he has...

The Rev. Bob Roll, pastor of St. Bride Catholic Church in South Shore, holds a Mother Teresa relic on July 14, 2014, at the church. On loan from a convent in Pilsen, the relic will be on display at St. Bride for a week before moving to an Edgewater Catholic church.

Ahead of canonization, Mother Teresa relic tours 2 Chicago parishes

May 22, 2019 at 10:11 p.m.

Dressed in Mother Teresa's signature white sari with blue stripes, the Missionaries of Charity work to maintain and preserve their founder's ministry to the poor. To inspire their work, every...

The Rev. Michael Enright presides over the 10 a.m. Mass at St. Adalbert Roman Catholic Church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on June 26, 2016. The Chicago Academy of Music is interested in purchasing the church and renovating it into a music conservatory.

Chicago Academy of Music in talks to save, renovate St. Adalbert church

May 22, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

The awe-inspiring architecture that for more than a century has housed worshippers at St. Adalbert Roman Catholic Church could eventually host young musical prodigies from around the world. The Chicago...

Tribune Co. executive Jack Fuller speaks to editorial employees at the Los Angeles Times on March 17, 2000.

Jack Fuller, ex-Tribune editor and publisher, dies at 69

June 10, 2018 at 12:26 p.m.

When former editor and publisher Jack Fuller stepped down from his post as president of Tribune Co.'s publishing division in 2004, reporters and editors at the baiduhai declared it...

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's office said he is reviewing a bill that would give Muslims a formal voice in government.

Muslims hope for Rauner’s signature on advisory council bill

June 11, 2018 at 10:01 p.m.

There might not be a budget, but Illinois could become the first state with a law on the books that gives Muslims a formal voice in government. The creation of...

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