Author: Deepa Bharath and Ellyn Pak

Source: The Orange County Register

http://www.ocregister.com/news/university-253265-union-student.html

UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union members say a year-long suspension came as a shock and that the university's action would deny Muslim students a sense of community, according to a statement released Monday afternoon.

“Suspending the MSU would undoubtedly create a chilling effect and...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Associated Press of Pakistan

Author: Raymond Legendre

Source: The Daily Comet

http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20100614/FEATURES12/100619609?Title=Faith-is-needed-to-stop-spill-activist-says

A few dozen people stood on a stretch of Grand Isle beach Sunday afternoon, hoping that what they were about to receive in their cupped hands would end the oil spill that has caused so much suffering and uncertainty.

Six...

Author: Bob Smietana

Source: The Tennessean

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100614/NEWS06/6140327/1022/NEWS05

Before the Rev. Roderick Belin gets ready to preach, he grabs his Bible and his iPhone.

He uses the mobile device to look up Bible verses and theology texts and to alert him if his sermon runs too long. If he forgets the words to a hymn, his phone can save the day. That's what happened on a...

Author: Charles Rabin

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/13/1677963/prayer-an-issue-at-miami-city.html

The practice of praying to Jesus at the start of Miami City Commission meetings triggered a protest from the American Civil Liberties Union and clergy who consider the postulating a breach in separating church from state -- and an immediate change at City Hall.

Author: Herbert A. Sample

Source: The Syracuse Post-Standard

Wire Service: AP

Author: Sally Kalson

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10161/1064517-455.stm

Religions differ, but everyone's blood is red, and it's all needed by the Central Blood Bank.

So this Sunday -- the day before World Blood Donors Day -- the region's first interfaith blood drive will take place at Heinz Field, in the Great Hall, from 2 to 7 p.m. Organizers are calling it "Sharing Faith, Sharing Life," and promising a "...

Author: Mohamed Elibiary and Amad Shaikh

Source: AltMuslim

http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/3792

A recent effort meant to heal the trauma many New Yorkers continue to feel from the tragic events of 9/11 by building a mosque near Ground Zero named Cordoba House has garnered a great deal of angst. Tensions reached a new low recently when Michael Berry...

Author: Ali Sethi

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13sethi.html?ref=religion_and_belief&pagewanted=all

For many Pakistanis, the deaths of more than 80 members of the Ahmadi religious sect in mosque attacks two weeks ago raised questions of the nation’s future. For me, it recalled a command from my schoolboy past: “Write a Note on the Two-Nation...

Author: Mitchell Landsberg

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-claremont-20100609,0,4360922.story

In a bow to the growing diversity of America's religious landscape, the Claremont School of Theology, a Christian institution with long ties to the Methodist Church, will add clerical training for Muslims and Jews to its curriculum this fall, to become, in a sense, the first truly multi-faith...

Author: Michael Johnson

Source: Greenwich Time/Alamogordo Daily News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Las-Cruces-woman-juggles-Hispanic-Muslim-cultures-516756.php

Daisy Maldonado doesn't particularly like it when people make assumptions about her.

Maldonado, a student at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces,...

Author: Bruce Nolan

Source: The Times-Picayune

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/thousands_of_south_louisianian.html

Twice a day, precisely at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., alarms ring on dozens of cell phones, alerting those participating in the Rev. Jim Woodard's week-old Internet prayer initiative to spend one minute praying for relief from the BP Gulf oil spill.

A candlelight...

Author: Mitchell Landsberg

Source: Cleveland/The Los Angeles Times

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/06/methodist-aligned_seminary_ope.html

In a bow to the growing diversity of America's religious landscape, the Claremont School of Theology, a Christian institution with long ties to the Methodist Church, will add clerical training for Muslims and Jews to its curriculum this fall, to become, in a...

Author: Stephen Prothero

Source: CNN

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/the-white-house-gets-religion/

Religion isn’t just for Republicans any more.

One key to President Obama’s 2008 election victory was his willingness to speak openly about his personal faith and to connect the dots between his public policies and biblical values. 

In his inaugural address, he famously described the...