Author: Phred Dvorak

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122411562348138619.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Mass firings at meatpacking plants in Colorado and Nebraska last month highlight growing conflicts over how to accommodate religion in the workplace.

The plants, owned by the U.S. unit of Brazil's JBS SA, collectively fired about 200 Muslim Somali workers who walked off the job over prayer...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081015/LIFESTYLE04/810150384/1409/METRO

A documentary film mailed to tens of thousands of households in Macomb and Oakland counties and distributed as advertising in local newspapers is being decried as bigotry by some Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders, who say it portrays radical Islam as a demonic force bent on...

Author: Sara Cesky

Source: The Greyhound

http://media.www.loyolagreyhound.com/media/storage/paper665/news/2008/10/14/News/Common.Text.Author.Speaks.On.Global.Interfaith.Movement-3484418.shtml

Loyola students and faculty members filled McGuire Hall Thursday night to listen to renowned author and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, Eboo Patel, speak on...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Peninsula

Author: Kyung M. Song

Source: The Seattle Times

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008259777_togetherbuild13m.html

Here's a remark rarely — if ever — overheard at a construction site:

"The Jewish experience was shaped by the Diaspora. ... "

The speaker was Phil Gerson, a retired Boeing employee who belongs to Bellevue's Temple B'nai Torah. Listening was Farhad Ahmed, a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Press TV

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Evening Standard

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/newsheadlines/article-23571279-details/Faith+leaders+promote+peace/article.do#readerComments

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to join Christian and Muslim scholars for the start of a conference aimed at promoting understanding between the two faiths.

Dr Williams and the Grand...

Author: Cynthia Hubert

Source: The Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/278/story/1307204.html

As much of the rest of the world roiled with tension, thousands of people marched the streets of Sacramento on Saturday in the name of peace and unity.

Downtown residents in jeans and sweat shirts peered from their balconies and porches as men in turbans and women in colorful saris made their way from Southside Park to the state Capitol.

The...

Author: Douglas Todd

Source: Canwest News Service

http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=877025

The dream of a free-standing permanent interspiritual centre at the Olympic Village in Vancouver has failed to be realized, but negotiations are still underway to satisfy the spiritual needs of hockey players, ski jumpers and ice skaters during the 2010 Winter Games.

The Vancouver organizing committee is privately negotiating with a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MCOT English News

http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=6728

The southern region of Thailand is home to both Muslims and Buddhists, with the majority of ethnic Malay Muslims in provinces bordering Malaysia. An activity encouraging better understanding among the young followers of the two religions has been initiated and appears to be enjoying very pleasant feedback.

Prakru Sunthornkitjanuyok, deputy abbot of Tamod temple in...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: JTA

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110725.html

An interfaith group blasted the creators and distributors of a film critical of radical Islam.

At a news conference Tuesday in Washington, Interfaith Alliance chairman Rabbi Jack Moline described the film, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War with the West" as a "thinly veiled call for disparagement and distrust of all Muslims."

By "exercising the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Arab News

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=115292&d=10&m=10&y=2008&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

The United Nations General Assembly will hold a session in the middle of next month to discuss Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s initiative to promote interfaith dialogue. This was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon while...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Indian Catholic

http://www.theindiancatholic.com/report.asp?nid=11502

Christian and Hindu leaders singed a joint declaration New Delhi Oct. 8 calling for an end to violence and the promotion of interfaith dialogue between Hindus and Christians.

The statement was singed after a meeting of Christian leaders such as Archbishops of New Delhi and Cuttuck-Bhubaneswar met with Hindu leader Chidanand Saraswati at...

Author: Electa Draper

Source: The Denver Post

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_10679959?nclick_check=1

When religious beliefs and work rules clash, as they did in September for Muslim workers at a northern Colorado meat-processing plant during their holy month of Ramadan, the consequences can be devastating.

Federal laws require employers to accommodate an employee's sincerely-held religious beliefs and practices unless doing so...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1245693.html

A new grassroots initiative on immigration reform says more than 300 clergy and religous leaders have signed up to support the North Carolina group.

The North Carolina Religious Coalition for Justice for Immigrants will hold a news conference Tuesday in Raleigh to discuss immigration reform. Five religious leaders will speak, including the...