Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Daily Press

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,7057,0,0,1,0

Buddhist monks must stop holding services at their home near Pungo. In an 8-2 vote Tuesday, the Virginia Beach City Council denied the monks' request to use their West Neck Road house as a temple with a Sunday service for two more years.

Author: Steve Padilla

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs30-2008aug30,0,931434.story

Conflicts between religions continue to rock the world, but when Gustav Niebuhr looks out on the religious landscape, he sees what he calls the "possibility of community."

Niebuhr, an associate professor of religion at Syracuse University, detects an encouraging (he calls it...

Author: Ian Drury

Source: The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050266/Ministers-recruit-young-Muslims-advisers-latest-bid-combat-Islamic-extremism.html

Twenty young Muslims are to become personal advisers to three Cabinet ministers in an attempt by the Government to tackle Islamic extremism.

Labour says the group, aged 16 to 25, will keep...

Author: Anne Davies

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/news/us-election/obama-sets-islamic-visit-as-a-priority/2008/08/28/1219516662977.html

If elected, Barack Obama will visit a major Islamic capital during the first 12 months of his presidency, as part of his strategy to more actively engage with the Middle East, his national security adviser, Greg Craig, revealed Wednesday...