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Muslims Condemn Mumbai Attacks, But Uneasy About Bloodshed Linked To Their Religion

November 30, 2008

Author: Karin Laub

Source: Newsday

Wire Service: AP

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-muslims-india-shootings,0,646733.story

Muslims from the Middle East to Britain and Austria condemned Sunday the Mumbai shooting rampage by suspected Islamic militants as senseless terrorism, but also found themselves on the defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their...

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Sepulveda Sparks Multifaith Alliance at Bryn Mawr

November 30, 2008

Author: Wajeeha Mosin

Source: The Bi-College News

http://www.biconews.com/?p=12772

Katherine Sepulveda is a sophomore philosophy major whose interests go beyond the usual writing, reading, and watching “Dancing With the Stars”. Right now her primary goal is to promote greater multi-faith awareness on campus.

As the appointed Multifaith Coordinator and new head of the Multifaith Alliance at Bryn Mawr, Sepulveda sees herself as a liaison between...

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High Desert Buddhist Shrine Has Regional Draw

November 30, 2008

Author: Joe Nelson

Source: The Buddhist Channel/San Bernadino County Sun

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,7457,0,0,1,0

In this windswept desert city, just north of Adelanto Airport, a 25-foot statue of a Buddhist bodhisattva said to have miraculous healing powers looms over Highway 395.

Every week, hundreds of Buddhists from all over Southern California congregate here, at the 15-acre Buddhist Meditation Center.
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Uneasy Peace for Berlin's New Ahmadi Mosque

November 29, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Deutsche Welle

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3835656,00.html

Berlin's first Ahmadi mosque opened its doors in the former eastern side of the German capital last month. The building and the religious group are putting religious tolerance to the test.

A 13-meter-high (43-foot) minaret competes for attention alongside pillars advertising the fast food outlets at a busy intersection in Pankow, a...

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Haitian-Americans' Voodoo Ritual Honors the Dead

November 29, 2008

Author: Jennifer Kay

Source: The Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6137867.html

Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish, complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum.

The food is an offering to the spirits expected to dance among the revelers at Voodoo priest Erol Josue's Miami...

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Indian-Americans Hold Vigil in Phoenix to Honor Terror Victims

November 29, 2008

Author: Lindsey Collom

Source: The Arizona Republic

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/11/29/20081129indiavigil1129.html

Leena Raval spent the past two days watching television for word of her uncle's fate.

He went to dinner at a restaurant at one of the hotels that came under siege in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday. She said it was the same restaurant where she last saw him two years ago.

Raval,...

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Faith Leaders Urge Climate Curbs

November 28, 2008

Author: Christopher Landau

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7753784.stm

Leaders from the world's religious traditions have signed a manifesto urging tough action on climate change.

Around 1,000 delegates are meeting at the Interfaith Climate Summit in Uppsala, Sweden, at the invitation of the Swedish church.

The manifesto, signed by 30 religious leaders, calls for "rapid and large emission cuts in the rich world"....

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Sikh Man Loses Right to Wear Turban in Driving Licence Photo After EU Court Ruling

November 28, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090031/Sikh-man-loses-right-wear-turban-driving-licence-photo-EU-court-ruling.html

A Sikh man who wanted the right to wear a turban while being photographed for his French drivers' licence has lost his case in the European Court of Human Rights.

Shingara Mann Singh,...

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Faith Leaders in Sweden Told Climate 'Crisis' Can Trigger Change

November 28, 2008

Author: Peter Kenny

Source: ENI

http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2509

Politicians, religious leaders and royalty, gathered in the Swedish city of Uppsala, have heard a reminder ahead of a key U.N. conference on climate change that faiths carry a hope that can resist despair and fatalism.

"We are not at this meeting to find special religious answers to the environmental crisis," said Archbishop Anders Wejryd of the (Lutheran) Church of...

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