Author: Staff Writer

Source: White House Briefing Room Blog

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog_post/this_is_my_prayer/

"The particular faith that motivates each of us can promote a greater good for all of us," President Obama said this morning to a crowd of several thousand people gathered for the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in the nation's capital. "Instead of driving us apart, our varied beliefs can bring us together to feed...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ObamaAnnouncesWhiteHouseOfficeofFaith-basedandNeighborhoodPartnerships/

President Barack Obama today signed an executive order establishing the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships will work on behalf of...

Author: Laura Meckler

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123379504018650159.html

When President Barack Obama launches his version of the faith-based initiative Thursday, he will expand the mission to include abortion reduction and outreach to the Muslim world. He will also try to avoid the thorniest constitutional issues that beset the program for years under his predecessor.

Mr. Obama's approach to the...

Author: Maria Papadopoulos

Source: Enterprise News

http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/x371095136/Brockton-Interfaith-Community-to-celebrate-19th-anniversary

For 19 years, the Brockton Interfaith Community has worked to make Brockton a better place to live and work.

More recently, the faith-based organization has worked to address the city’s foreclosure crisis, has built affordable...

Author: Casey Woods

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/888653.html

Following a dramatic attack on a Caracas synagogue and amid rising anti-Semitism in Venezuela, several groups within South Florida's religious community will hold an interfaith rally Thursday night to support Venezuelan Jews.

''It's important for us here in the community, both Jewish or non-Jewish, to stand in solidarity with...

Author: Bob Lewis

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--xgr-policeprayers0204feb04,0,2774634.story

A bill reversing an administrative order that State Police chaplains offer ecumenical, non-denominational prayers at official events has won House passage.

The legislation passed the House 66-30 Wednesday with 14 Democrats and both independents joining 50...

Author: Jawed Naqvi

Source: Dawn

http://www.dawn.com/2009/02/05/top8.htm

A UN report has slammed the pervasive climate of fear and intolerance perpetuated by religious mobs in many parts of India, and asked the government to provide effective protection to the minorities of whom Christians and Muslims in particular were vulnerable, often helpless and increasingly ghettoised.

“Even though a comprehensive legal framework to protect freedom of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries

http://www.coopmet.org/ComingEvents.htm#February_6

Local community organizations Art Builds Community (ABC) and the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) with support from the Center for Jewish-Muslim Relations (CJMR), Congregation Dorshei Tzekek (CDT), the Al Huda Society (AHS), and Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries (CMM) are creating the 2009 Boston Interfaith Youth Mural aimed at bringing...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/04/america/REL-Obama-Faith-Based.php

The Obama administration is set to announce a diverse set of advisers to a revamped White House office that will steer government money to religious and neighborhood groups doing social service work. They include a former president of the Southern...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Airdrie Echo

http://www.airdrieecho.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1420131

Airdrie hosted its third World Religions Conference last Thursday, bringing four very different religions together to speak to the community about each of their belief systems.

Mayor Linda Bruce was invited to speak at the event, just as she did last year, mentioning that these types of conferences are great learning opportunities for...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/03/europe/EU-Vatican-Papal-Controversy-Analysis.php

Criticism of Pope Benedict XVI has come from various quarters — Muslims, Jews, members of his own flock.

But in the latest papal controversy, even Germany's leader and some top Roman Catholic churchmen...

Author: Jacqueline L. Salmon and Michelle Boorstein

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/story/684398.html

With a president they view as more sympathetic to their causes, progressive religious activists are pushing the new Obama administration for aggressive action -- on poverty, the environment and social justice issues -- that would mark a significant shift in the faith agenda that dominated the Bush years....

Author: Matthew Artz

Source: The Argus

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_11599566?source=most_emailed

To some, Fremont might be just another pool in California's sea of subdivisions and strip malls.

But not to Harvard researchers.

They first visited the city nearly 20 years ago and returned in 2006 for the city's 50th birthday to make a movie that will be premiered next week: "Fremont USA."

The 57-minute...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Deseret News

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705281465,00.html

Commemorating the Olympic Spirit every February, Interfaith Week in Utah returns Feb. 1-8 for its seventh year, renewing a vision of religious, intercultural and global goodwill.

It is sponsored by the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable (founded in 1999 for the 2002 Olympics).

Interfaith Week is the group's annual signature event....

Author: Molly Rossiter

Source: The Gazette

http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090130/NEWS/701309942/1006

Acknowledging our differences and embracing our similarities are important in promoting peace and healing in times of conflict, area religious leaders said last night.

In an interfaith prayer service for peace and healing, held at Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist, nine speakers...