Author: Travis Loller

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021104261.html

When an out-of-work truck driver opened fire in a Tennessee church because it welcomed gay and multiracial families, the congregation met that hatred with love. In the process, it inspired a national campaign centered around Valentine'...

Author: Samuel G. Freedman

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/12religion.html?ref=religionandbelief

In a San Antonio chapel last August, after reciting their wedding vows and exchanging their rings, Sally and Mark Austin prepared to receive communion for the first time as husband and wife. Just before they did, their minister asked them to sign a document. It was a ketubah, a traditional Jewish...

Author: Adam Parker

Source: The Post and Courier

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/feb/08/interfaith-event-backs-mideast-democracy/

Answering a call for solidarity, local faith leaders and about 100 Charleston-area residents assembled Monday night at the Jewish Community Center to show support for the democracy movement in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Author: Sarah Sweeney

Source: The Harvard Gazette

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/%E2%80%98that-was-his-dream%E2%80%99/

According to S. Allen Counter, it was a scene that would have made civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. proud.

The pews at the Memorial Church were crammed with members of the Harvard community who turned out on Monday (Feb. 7) evening to celebrate the life and message of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BeliefNet News

Wire Service: RNS

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/02/obama-names-second-round-of-fa.php

President Obama has named top U.S. church leaders to an advisory council on faith-based programs, but the list of appointments is also drawing questions about a lack of diversity from minority faiths.

Author: Laurie Goodstein

Source: The New York Times Magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/politics/08muslim.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Monday that he planned to call mostly Muslim and Arab witnesses to testify in hearings next month on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism.

Author: Kathy Hanson

Source: The Ames Tribune

http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2011/02/06/ames_tribune/news/doc4d4e312a782fc802153812.txt

Emily Hull’s shy remark broke the ice for an interfaith circle of about 15 women who met for the first time Saturday in the kitchen of the Darul Arqum Islamic Center of Ames.

Author: Kanwal Prakash Singh

Source: The Indianapolis Star

http://newsfromyou.indystar.com/posts/interfaith-gathering-at-the-sikh-temple-sikh-satsang-honors-rev-kent-millard-and-others

The Sikh Temple (Acton Road) in Indianapolis dedicated the last Sunday of January to the important work and vision of Interfaith Hunger Initiative (IHI). The Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis...

Author: Charles Radin

Source: Brandeis NOW

http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2011/february/jewbus.html

Who are the JewBus? What is a JewBu?

These and other, more-sophisticated questions about the meeting of the distinctive cultures, traditions and practices of Judaism and Buddhism are being asked by two members of the Sociology faculty, Associate Professor Wendy Cadge and Assistant Professor Sara Shostak, in research they began...

Author: Toby Sterling

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020201514_pf.html

Jewish groups in the Netherlands called Wednesday for swifter punishment for Holocaust deniers as parliament debated how to combat rising anti-Semitism.

Among other measures, a Jewish umbrella organization said it wants...

Author: Sarah Posner

Source: The Religion Dispatches Magazine

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/sarahposner/4164/religious_leaders_demand_apology_from_west_for_anti-islam_comments/

An interfaith group of religious leaders has sent a letter to freshman Republican Allen West of Florida, calling him to apologize for anti-Islam remarks he made recently on an...

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....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The UN News Centre

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37431&Cr=faith&Cr1=

The United Nations launched the first World Interfaith Harmony Week today with a broad range of activities around the world, including interfaith breakfasts, film screenings and talks featuring the active participation of civil society, UN entities and other intergovernmental organizations.