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An Interfaith Valentine's Day Special
February 11, 2016
Farah and Jeremy, a Muslim-Jewish couple, share how they practice both religions as a family -- with humor, extra fasting, and Venn diagrams. Then, we explore the significance behind the unprecedented meeting between Pope Francis and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch.
Farah and Jeremy
Will You Be My (Interfaith) Valentine? February 11, 2016
Farah is Muslim, and Jeremy is Jewish. They fast for Ramadan and Yom Kippur, visit synagogue and mosque, and plan to teach their children Hebrew and Arabic. Farah and Jeremy share why they decided to raise their two boys in both faiths and discuss the challenges and rewards of being an interfaith family.

Farah and Jeremy, interfaith couple
Oxford University Press
Exploring the Rise in Interfaith Marriage February 11, 2016
To put Jeremy and Farah's story in context, we turn to author Naomi Schaefer Riley. According to her research, interfaith marriages are rising fast -- accounting for more than a third of all marriages today.  Naomi explains why Jews are the most likely to marry outside their faith, Mormons are the least likely, and Muslims are somewhere in the middle.

Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of 'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America
RIA Novost
A New Chapter for the Catholic and Orthodox Church February 11, 2016
A short meeting in a Havana airport could help repair a 1,000-year old "divorce." The couple is Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. We go back to the year 1054, when Christianity split into two camps and discuss some of the pressing current events surrounding the first ever meeting between a pope and a Russian patriarch.

Rev. Msgr. Paul Mcpartlan, Catholic priest and professor of theology at the Catholic University of America