Chris Columbus (WME, Hansen Jacobson) and his 1492 Pictures have acquired film rights to "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" from novelist Charles Yu (UTA, Signature Literary Agency).

In late December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted a delegation of rabbis at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, for the first annual summit of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States.

It’s Danny Kind, and he’s not even Catholic. But he’s in a college class that simulated the conclave of 1492. (There were costumes, bribes and Oreos.) By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham reports on religion.

In a quest to find a new land route to Asia, Christopher Columbus discovers the New World. However, his vision of for a peaceful new world doesn’t content with that of Spain’s vision of conquest. Jean ...