A new study from the watchdog group Open Doors USA finds last year was the most violent for Christians in modern history, rising to ‘a level akin to ethnic cleansing’.
The disturbing phenomena of religious conflict and violence around the world has affected one noted scholar who’s speaking on the topic tonight in our area.
The Rev. Canon Dr. Titus Presler is President-in-Exile of Edwardes College in Pakistan. Presler served at the school from 2011 to 2014, before being beaten and forced into exile by agents of Pakistan’s military Inter-Services Intelligence.
He’ll be speaking tonight in Ponte Vedra about the challenges of Christian-Muslim engagement, and he joins us with a preview.
We speak with Cleve Warren, founder of Jacksonville’s Valor and Virtue Academies, and Dr. Barbara Darby, president of FSCJ North, about the upcoming Urban Education Symposium.
In this month's edition of First Coast Success, Karen Mathis of "The Daily Record" profiles Jacksonville artist C. Ford Riley.
And sports contributor Cole Pepper stops by with a look ahead to the Super Bowl.
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