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Sharing Faiths: Program Brings Sacred Jewish Texts to Mosques

June 29, 2007

Author: DAVID CRUMM

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/NEWS05/706290321/1001/NEWS

A national pilot program to link Jews and Muslims with sacred books kicked off in Detroit on Thursday with the delivery of 17 Jewish books to one of the city's leading mosques.

"I hope this idea extends from Detroit across the U.S. and even throughout the world," Dawud Walid,...

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Interfaith Group Holds Conference at Harvard

June 29, 2007

Author: Matt Whorf

Source: Sharon Advocate

http://www.townonline.com/sharon/homepage/x1700754244

SHARON -The tide has come in for interfaith diversity education, and with it bringing waves of change. Such is the belief and hope of Interfaith Action, a high school religious interfaith group based in Sharon. It was also a prime motivation as teens from the group's Youth Leadership Program hosted a remarkable event this week called T.I.D.E. (Teenage...

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Monks End Protest, Still Demand Buddhist State Religion

June 29, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MCOT News

http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=30224

BANGKOK, June 29 (TNA) – Buddhist monks and laypeople ended their protest outside Parliament on Friday after staging a rally and hunger strike there for several weeks, demanding that the drafters of the new constitution officially recognise Buddhism as Thailand's religion in the charter.

While the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) is considering the article,...

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Georgia Muslim Barred From Court Over Islamic Scarf

June 28, 2007

Source: PRNewswire

http://fe31.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070628/pl_usnw/georgia_muslim_barred_from_court_over_islamic_scarf

WASHINGTON, June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group reported today that a Georgia Muslim seeking to contest a speeding ticket was allegedly barred from a courtroom in that state because she wears an Islamic headscarf, or hijab.

The...

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In Roxbury, a Call for Religious Tolerance

June 28, 2007

Author: David Abel

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/28/in_roxbury_a_call_for_religious_tolerance/

Rabbis came in yarmulkes, priests wore their Roman collars, and imams dressed in knitted caps and the loose-fitting gowns called thobes.

About 300 people, from Jews in sandals to suited Christians to Muslims in sequined veils, gathered beneath the arched brick...

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3rd Annual Sikh Children Day Celebration Held in Fremont

June 28, 2007

Author: Kashmir Shahi

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/592F79F5A16146F28725730800579CB0

If you are a young Sikh couple and need to start a new life and family and you visit Fremont and visit it especially on 'Sikh Children's day' you will feel this is the best place you could be in and the future of your children is secure.

Children celebrate 'Spirit Week' in...

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U.S. Nurse Organizing Buddhist Medical Training for Mongolian Doctors

June 27, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MongoliaWeb

http://www.mongolia-web.com/content/view/1116/2/

A United States nurse is organizing training session in traditional Buddhist medical practices for Mongolian doctors.

Sas Carey, a nurse from Middlebury, Vermont, made her first visit to [Mongolia] in the mid-1990’s. While in Ulaanbaatur, she persuaded Dr. Boldsaikhan, who she met at the Institute of Traditional Medicine, to take her on as a...

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