Author: Andrew Cain

Source: Richmond TImes-Dispatch

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/faith_values/article/EIDD28_20091127-222206/308291/

More than 3,000 Muslims gathered in prayer and fellowship yesterday at The Showplace on Mechanicsville Turnpike to mark Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.

The festival marks the end of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the city of Mecca in Saudi...

Author: The (Columbia) State

Source: The Columbia State

http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1771812.html

South Carolinians might get a chance to buy a Christian “I Believe” license tag after all.

The plaintiffs who won the lawsuit this month that killed the General Assembly-sanctioned “I Believe” license tag are saying they won't protest a private group's request that the state make the same tag for them.

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Author: Sam Dolnick

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/nyregion/28parking.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

For many in New York City, the Friday after Thanksgiving is a day to digest turkey, jostle with shopping hordes — and curse the fresh parking tickets tucked beneath untold thousands of windshield wipers.

Every year, a sleeping army of New Yorkers and their out-of-town guests...

Author: Edward Cody

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112503892.html

Notre Dame de la Garde, an elegant Roman Catholic basilica, has stood for 150 years on a promontory just south of Marseille's Old Port, looking down protectively as fishermen push out to the sea and symbolizing the irrepressible spirit of this fabled Mediterranean city.

But a...