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Odyssey Celebrates First Annual United Nations' World Interfaith Harmony Week

February 2, 2011

Author: Mary Dickey

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/02/prweb8110615.DTL

In 2010, HM King Abdullah II and HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan called on the United Nations to create World Interfaith Harmony Week. The resolution was unanimously adopted and this year marks the first annual celebration of interfaith harmony, throughout the first week of February....

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Record Number Of Grants Awarded for Multi-faith Productions In 2011

January 14, 2011

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle/Vocus/PR Web

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/14/prweb8066703.DTL

Religion is an increasingly prominent topic in news and media today, but we often hear only the negative side of the story. Odyssey Networks seeks to tell the positive stories of faith in action around the globe, helping to present the voices of people of faith as they work...

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How Should Christians Cope With 'Christmas Wars?'

December 8, 2010

Author: Douglas A. Hicks

Source: The Washington Post

http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/12/return_of_the_christmas_wars.html

Welcome back to the "December dilemma" death match -- the 2010 edition. In this corner are the self-proclaimed defenders of Christmas, ready and organized to denounce anyone who says "Happy Holidays." In the other corner are a more motley crew of retailers,...

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New Vrindaban Hosts Harvard’s Pluralism Project

December 2, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: New Vrindaban

http://newvrindaban.com/newsevents/205-new-vrindaban-hosts-harvards-pluralism-project.html

This past weekend, New Vrindaban Community hosted 36 students from the Global Leadership Center (GLC) at Ohio University it Athens, OH. Dr. Greg Emery, the GLC’s Director, is an affiliate of Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, which studies religious diversity...

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Hindu Group Stirs a Debate Over Yoga’s Soul

November 27, 2010

Author: Paul Vitello

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/nyregion/28yoga.html?_r=1&ref=religion_and_belief

Yoga is practiced by about 15 million people in the United States, for reasons almost as numerous — from the physical benefits mapped in brain scans to the less tangible rewards that New Age journals call spiritual centering. Religion, for the most part, has nothing to do with it...

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Denmark People Receptive to Hinduism

November 26, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Daily India/Asian News International

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/410784.php

"Danes have been receptive to Hinduism", according to Danish Pluralism Project study launched by Faculty of Theology of University of Aarhus in Denmark.

 

 

"One example is yoga, which is a complex system of exercises designated as a disciplinary process of the ego, and in a wider perspective the reunion of the self and...

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Centennial Gathering Opens With Joy And Celebration

November 9, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The National Council of Churches

http://www.ncccusa.org/witnesses2010/ga2010.110810.htm

The Centennial Gathering of the National Council of Churches and Church World Service opens today with a crowded schedule that begins with greetings from Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson and concludes tonight with a sermon by Archbishop Gregory Michael Aymond of New Orleans.

 

The...

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