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The Religion Issue

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TikTok-famous preachers answer student questions

By Olivia Metelo | April 3

The preachers, Cliffe Knechtle and his son Stuart, are popular on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram for traveling to college campuses across ...

Column: Keeping the faith through religion

By Charlsie Doan | November 17

Local churches adapt in response to COVID-19 guidance

By Sally Curme | September 2

Students and faculty react to executive order on anti-Semitism

By Evely Forte | January 9

The Religion Issue is The Daily Tar Heel's first themed issue for 2015-16. Stories cover topics of religion in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community, as well as at the University and in North Carolina.

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Three years after the Chapel Hill shooting, Muslim students talk legacy, Islamophobia

By Lucas Risinger | February 11

According to a study by the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of Americans polled in 2017 responded that "there is a natural conflict between Islam and ...

Raleigh election vandalism displays anti-Muslim sentiment

By Lucas Risinger | October 10

Raleigh city council candidate Zainab Baloch’s campaign sign was found vandalized Friday morning with a racial slur, the word "Trump" and a swastika. ...

The United Church of Chapel Hill hosted a workshop over the weekend introducing participants to ideas about the sanctuary movement and ways to help immigrants.

'Love thy neighbor and welcome the stranger': NC churches provide sanctuary for immigrants

By Emma Boggess | September 20

North Carolina churches are coming together to offer sanctuary to immigrants and families facing deportation.

Does your religious organization support same-sex marriage?

By Jun Chou and Samantha Sabin | October 7

The Daily Tar Heel asked 27 religious organizations on campus the same question: Does your organization support same-sex marriage?

NC General Assembly members come from mostly Christian faiths

By Kristi Walker and Lauren Kent | October 7

In the North Carolina General Assembly, only four legislators did not specifically say they came from a Christian religious tradition.

Chapel Hill is getting its first mosque on Stateside Dr. off of MLK. It is located in a neighborhood and this is the site during construction.

Muslims ﬁnd a home in Chapel Hill

By Mary Helen Moore | October 7

Chapel Hill is home to more than 50 churches, a Jewish synagogue and two Buddhist temples — but no mosque.

Alex Vasquez, a senior dramatic arts and psychology major, and Max DePietro, a senior management and society and art history major, set/stand together in St. Anthony's Hall, a co-ed art fraternity of which they are both a part.

Vasquez was raised in a Catholic family and now identifies as Christian. DePietro was raised in a Jewish family but is now agnostic.

"I know that my family just cares that I'm with someone who cares about me, not so much the religion," DePietro said.

Interfaith relationships are "another way to gain new perspectives and kind of explore life through that lens," Vasquez said.

Couples of different faiths ﬁnd perspective to make it work

By Cain Twyman | October 7

UNC sophomore Salem Hockett says she’s a United Methodist Christian. She was raised in the church, and her father was the preacher.

David Horner, the senior pastor of Providence Baptist church, gives the 38th year anniversary sermon Sunday.

Megachurches attract youth members

By Zoe Schaver | October 7

The building towers over its sprawling parking lot, its windowless slabs of off-white concrete giving it the authoritative look of a government building. ...

Steve Richichi of Chapel Hill, picks up a few things at the Mediterranean Deli Market on Monday evening. He says he enjoys the fresh produce and the prices are great too. Employee, Lukas Zdanavicius.

On campus, religious dietary restrictions hard to meet

By Zhai Yun Tan | October 6

Saarah Khan’s food options in the dining hall are limited. She mostly eats pasta, salad and an occasional veggie burger.

Column: Why Religion?

By Samantha Sabin | October 6

I am not religious. I’m not sure if I’m an agnostic or just an atheist in denial, but I definitely do not practice any of the religions covered in ...

Same-sex couples still face obstacles with adoption

By Nick Niedzwiadek and Lindsey Brunson | October 6

As America grows evermore accepting of the LGBT community, some religious communities have opened their congregations to people of different sexual orientations, ...

NC Hillel opens doors to all

By Trevor Lenzmeier | October 6

Though Ari Gauss, executive director of Jewish campus life foundation N.C. Hillel, has made a home in Chapel Hill since moving to the South in 2009, his ...

Rev. Beverly M. Solomon (left) and Rev. Mary Jane Palmer (right) lead communion at St. Paul African Episcopal Methodist Church in Chapel Hill.

St. Paul AME: Come in to worship, leave to serve

By Camila Molina | October 6

Chapel Hill is going to be a town with a village.