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Beltane Celebrations in the U.S.

April 28, 2003

Source: The Cincinnati Post

http://www.cincypost.com/2003/04/28/pagan042803.html

On April 28, 2003 The Cincinnati Post reported that "the 10-year-old boy was listening in Sunday school... But David Gordon-Johnson wasn't learning about the Bible -- he was learning how to become a good Pagan... David's Sunday school class is part of Earthspirit, the St. John's Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans in Clifton... The lesson for David and other youngsters in Clare...

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Update: Ohio Sikh Temple Receives Historic Marker

April 28, 2003

Source: The Beacon Journal

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/5733917.htm

On April 28, 2003 The Beacon Journal reported that "the Sikh Gurdwara of Richfield -- the first Sikh temple in Ohio -- was awarded a historical marker Sunday by the Ohio Bicentennial Commission... Displayed in front of the temple on Broadview Road, the marker provides a sense of validation for many of the faith, such as Ratanjit S. Sondhe of Chagrin Falls... 'We feel now that we are part of America,'...

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Thai Buddhists in Florida Celebrate New Year

April 28, 2003

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

On April 28, 2003 the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that "the 40-year-old abbot of the Thai Buddhist temple in nearby Palm Springs [FL] merrily confessed to having a great time Sunday as he and five other monks from Florida led a New Year's celebration to mark the start two weeks ago of the year 2546 in the Buddhist calendar... The Songkran festival drew about 300 people, most of them Thai, to a picnic shelter in Lake Worth's John Prince Park, where the resonant chanting of the monks was followed by an exhibition of...

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Illinois Islamic Center Vandalized

April 28, 2003

Source: The Southern Illinois

http://www.thesouthern.com/rednews/2003/04/29/build/local/LOC005.html

On April 28, 2003 The Southern Illinois reported that "sometime late Sunday night or early Monday, vandals had sprayed messages in black paint on the pale yellow siding and light-colored doors of the... Islamic Center on Poplar Street... Police were contacted at 11:25 a.m. by a passerby who saw the damage. Construction workers nearby said the damage was...

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Elder Women Celebrate their Bat Mitzvah

April 27, 2003

Source: The Boston Globe

On April 27, 2003 The Boston Globe reported that the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged held its first communal Bat Mitzvah. The article stated that "typically a coming-of-age ritual for 13 year-olds, the ceremony marks the formal acknowledgement of an adult Jew. But the seven women had together accrued more than 500 years of life experience by the time of their Bat Mitzvah yesterday in Roslindale... In their youth, these women never dreamed they could read the Torah at the bima, in front of the congregation, or one day...

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More Involvement by Laypeople Urged in the Catholic Tradition

April 27, 2003

Source: World-Herald

On April 27, 2003 the World-Herald reported that "speakers at a meeting of Catholic reformists Saturday in Omaha urged more involvement by laypeople in the face of a growing shortage of priests and in the wake of the denomination's sexual-abuse crisis... Georgia Keightley, a lay theologian from Crawford, Neb., told the 50 people at the Call to Action Nebraska Conference 2003 that laypeople must become more active in their local parishes' ministries. The group met at First United Methodist Church in Omaha... The message she delivered...

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Danza Azteca and Indigenous Mexican Traditions

April 27, 2003

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2003/April/27/style/stories/01style.htm

On April 27, 2003 the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that "it’s Tuesday night in the E.A. Hall Middle School Cafeteria, regular rehearsal night for the Watsonville Danza Azteca group, White Hawk Dancers... But for [Ana] Esquivel, a Watsonville High sophomore, the biweekly rehearsals of Danza Azteca — indigenous Mexican dance — has...

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New England's Native American Community Launches Campaign to Make Deer Isle, MA, Off-limits to Dogs

April 27, 2003

Source: The Boston Globe

On April 27, 2003 The Boston Globe reported that "Native American groups want to ban dogs from the park on Deer Island, the site of a concentration camp for Indians during King Philips War and later a prison... [Sam] Sapiel... a leader of New England's Muhheconnew Confederacy... and other tribal leaders suspect that the remains of thousands of Indians could be buried there, and they say that dogs relieving themselves and digging in the dirt are desecrating what could be sacred burial grounds."

Residents of Boston and Brookline Debate Expansion of Synagogue

April 27, 2003

Source: The Boston Globe

On April 27, 2003 The Boston Globe reported that Boston and Brookline residents are "engaged in a tango" over the expansion of the synagogue of the Sephardic community of Greater Boston. "For almost two years, residents on both sides of the border [between Boston and Brookline], synagogue officials, their residential neighbors, and representatives from the Boston Redevelopment Authroity have been engaged in a tango of meetings, designs, redesigns, and compromises in an effort to appease all sides."