Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/shropshire/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8127000/8127205.stm

Shropshire Hindus are celebrating after being told they will receive a bank loan to fund a new temple, the first of its kind in the county.

The new temple and community centre will be built at Dawley Bank and will be called the Hindu Cultural...

Author: April Dembosky

Source: Diablo Magazine

http://www.diablomag.com/Diablo-Magazine/June-2009/Amma-rsquos-Ashram/

Mata Amritanandamayi has hugged almost 27 million people—the most recent estimate. Known as Amma, or Mother, she offers an embrace said to be so blissful, so life changing, that people wait more than 15 hours for a few seconds in her arms.

Amma began hugging people as a teenager in her hometown in...

Author: Andrea Fuller

Source: The New York Times

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/a-thank-you-and-a-koran-for-obama/

President Obama will soon receive a thank-you gift for his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. Inspired by the address, in which Mr. Obama quoted the Koran, the Council on American-Islamic Relations plans to distribute 100,000 copies of the Koran to national, state and local leaders.
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Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo News

Wire Service: AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_eu/eu_czech_jewish_cemetery

A Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, members of the community there said Tuesday.

Jaroslav Klenovsky of the Jewish community in nearby Brno said 63 tombstones were overturned at the cemetery in Uhersky Ostroh, some...