Author: Toby Sterling

Source: Tampa Bay Online

Wire Service: AP

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127984436

India is the world's largest democracy and home to a multitude of faiths. British journalist William Dalrymple, who has lived in India on and off for the last 25 years, surveys the subcontinent's rich religious topography in his latest book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha’i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/779

World leaders meeting in Canada have been urged to take "inspired leadership and action" to halt poverty, protect the environment, and end violent conflict.

The challenge was made in a statement drafted by representatives of the world's religions, who gathered at the University of Winnipeg in advance of this week's G8 and G20 summits in Toronto.

Author: Jennifer Medina

Source: The New York Times

Author: Lisa Wangsness

Source: Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/06/24/theological_schools_partnership_could_reshape_clergy_training/

Leaders of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre and Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago, which will become partners in a yet-to-be-named interreligious institution next summer, say...

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/23/AR2010062301419_pf.html

China's first "Religious Games" took place in the southwestern province of Yunnan this week, allowing Buddhist monks and Taoist nuns to compete with Muslims, Catholics and Protestants in a series of sporting events, local media reported.

The Games, held from June...

Author: Sue Shellenbarger

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704853404575322742500015642.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn

Marisol Corrales, an operations manager for a Dallas housecleaning service, doesn't attend church regularly or see herself as a religious person, she says. But she calls regularly on a workplace chaplain provided by her employer whenever she...

Author: Jim Kessler and Robert P. Jones

Source: The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-kessler/beyond-the-god-gap_b_622499.html

"Insofar as Evangelicals have demonized gays and lesbians [they] should repent before God." Was it Jon Stewart who said that? Bill Maher? Barney Frank? No, it was said by an Evangelical pastor of a Southern megachurch -- a conservative who calls Mike Huckabee a friend. We live in a...

Author: Aseem Shukla

Source: The Washington Post

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/aseem_shukla/2010/06/what_nikki_haleys_victory_does_not_mean.html

Last night's Republican primary runoff in South Carolina plausibly clears the way for Nikki Haley to join Bobby Jindal as governors with an epochal distinction: two Indian Americans leading two Southern states...

Author: Aliyya Swaby

Source: The Toledo Blade

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100621/NEWS16/6210324

More than 50 people from different faiths and backgrounds gathered at First Unitarian Church Sunday to sing a rousing "Happy Birthday" to Woody Trautman at his 90th birthday party.

Mr. Trautman, a retired electrical engineer, is the co-founder of the Multifaith Council of Northwest Ohio, with...

Author: Katharina R. Lestari

Source: Union of Catholic Asian News

http://www.ucanews.com/2010/06/21/indonesian-youths-unite-to-tackle-social-issues

A group of youths from a wide range of faiths have vowed to work together to help resolve Indonesia’s most pressing social concerns.

Around 80 representatives from a number of youth groups and faiths including Buddhist, Catholic, Confucian, Hindu, Muslim,...

Author: Tom Breen

Source: Associated Press

Author: Staff Writer

Source: ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/religious-duel-tennessee-10957587

God-fearing Christians oppose group of Muslims' bid to build a mosque.

Author: Jim Dwyer

Source: New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/nyregion/20about.html?ref=religion_and_belief

A few hours after the town hall meeting began, deep into the question-and-answer portion, Bill Finnegan lined up for a turn at the microphone. He had not come with any intention to speak, but as the evening dragged on, he changed his mind.

A Muslim group had made a deal to buy an empty convent...

Author: Kurt Streeter

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-amma-20100618,0,6096819.story

Globalization is good and necessary, whispers the guru, her arms circling yet another stranger, her words translated into English by an attendee. "But at the same time, families are disintegrating, people are becoming isolated islands, there is no communication… there is no love."

So says Amma, the Indian-...