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Religions Call for Climate Action

October 30, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8333250.stm

Leaders from across the UK's religious communities have said there is a "moral imperative" to tackle global warming.

Leaders from the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Baha'i, Jain and Zoroastrian faiths called on G20 nations to cut greenhouse gases.

They said climate change posed a "very real threat to the world's poor"....

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Parsi Body Plans Vulture Breeding to Help Death Rites

October 26, 2009

Author: Ashutosh Shukla

Source: DNA India

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_parsi-body-plans-vulture-breeding-to-help-death-rites_1303131

The Parsi community of the city — who leave their dead out in the open to be consumed by vultures and were facing problems with disposing their dead with the dwindling number of vultures in the city — are hoping to resolve the problem with an aviary...

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Parsis Use New Technology to Keep Religion Alive

September 29, 2009

Author: Phil Hazlewood

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZrn1iq_pbHnTyafDKtVtIqqMrYg

India's Parsis, the modern-day descendants of migrants who fled persecution in Iran more than 1,000 years ago, are turning to new technology to keep their ancient Zoroastrian religion alive.

Websites, blogs, on-line directories and matchmaking...

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Smithsonian Celebrates Norooz

June 2, 2009

Author: Nina Hamedani

Source: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2009/0905064b.html

Happy New Year, or Eid-e Shoma Ham Mobarak! Norooz, Persian for “new day,” falls on the vernal equinox and marks the first day of spring as well as the Iranian calendar’s new year. The holiday itself occurs at a different date each year depending on when the sun crosses the celestial equator, leaving...

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Matters Of Heart And Faith Guide a Zoroastrian Matchmaker

February 6, 2009

Author: Samuel G. Freedman

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/us/07religion.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

When Pouroo Dorabshaw flew to Los Angeles four years ago on a business trip, her mother urged her to visit a family friend just outside the city. The friend, it just so happened, was having a party the night of Miss Dorabshaw’s arrival. There was even another guest who could drive her...

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