Author: Sandy Sasso

Source: IndyStar.com

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081007/OPINION12/810070323/1002/OPINION

Every day, we routinely decide what we will eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. As we make our meals or restaurant reservations, the parents of 18,000 children in Indianapolis have to decide whether they will be able to serve breakfast, lunch or dinner to their sons and...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Charleston Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.com/foodandliving/200810060199

Harvard University Professor Diana Eck will speak on religious diversity at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Charleston.

Eck is an award-winning author who has written a highly-acclaimed book, "A New Religious America."

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Muslim Public Affairs Council

http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=712

Nationally recognized Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders will hold a press conference on Tuesday, October 7 in Washington, DC to speak out against an anti-Muslim film called "Obsession," which is being distributed to 28 million households in election swing states by a shadowy non-profit group called the Clarion Fund.

Hosted by the Interfaith Alliance, the...

Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe

Source: America: The National Catholic Weekly

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=11095

If the second half of the 20th century could be called the ecumenical era, the initial decades of this century signal the start of the interfaith era. In the years following the promulgation of Nostra Aetate, the Catholic Church took early leadership in outreach efforts to other religious...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Muslim Public Affairs Council

http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=711

We, the undersigned religious leaders, representing a wide spectrum of theological beliefs and political persuasions, have come together in moral consensus to voice our deep concern over the recent distribution of a deeply divisive and anger-provoking DVD called "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" to residents across the United States.

The...

Author: Sam Cross

Source: The Cornell Daily Sun

http://cornellsun.com/node/32347

Cornell students enjoyed a night of delicious food and stimulating discussion at a Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Dinner last night.

With Rosh Hashanah and the end of Ramadan coinciding together this year, Jewish and Muslim students on campus gathered in the One World Room at Annabel Taylor Hall in the hopes of bridging a dialogue between the two communities. Cornell Hillel, Muslim...

Author: Annie Barnard

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/nyregion/04cremate.html?em

Friends and family remember Shafayet Reja as an affectionate young man who stayed up late to write poetry, danced exuberantly at weddings and explored the faiths of his father and mother with an openheartedness that led him to declare on his Facebook page, “I never get tired of learning the new things that life has to offer....

Author: Christopher Burbach

Source: Omaha World-Herald

Author: Samuel G. Freedman

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/04religion.html

Several weeks ago, before the earth cracked open on Wall Street, Imam Khalid Latif had a chat with one of his regular worshipers at the Muslim center at New York University. This young man, a business student, had a theological complaint to register. Why did Islam make such a big deal about the principle of mutual benefit? What was the matter...

Author: Leon Cohen

Source: The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=10654

A national interfaith coalition, “Fighting Poverty With Faith,” wants to turn candidates’ attention from the middle class to the poor.

“In the next few months” of the election season, participants will “keep asking the candidates” — national and local — “...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: IANS

http://hamaraphotos.com/news/religion/iftar-party-at-hanuman-temple-in-uttar-pradesh.html

In a rare gesture of communal amity, Muslims visited a temple here to participate in an Iftar party thrown by their Hindu friends.

Organised Monday evening at a Hanuman temple in Govindpuri area in Chinhat locality, the party witnessed as many as 150 members from both communities....

Author: Peter Faur

Source: The Zonie Report

http://zoniereport.com/2008/10/arizona-growth-poses-religious-challenge-1230/

Arizona is set to experience religious growing pains after waves of new residents have made it more religiously diverse than ever.

But the subtle shift in demographics does not necessarily mean Arizonans will practice more religious tolerance, an expert says. If anything, they’ll have to...

Author: Chris Herlinger

Source: Ecumenical News International

http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2322

The global financial crisis should not derail progress that has been made on fighting poverty worldwide, religious leaders have said, adding that the current financial market turmoil makes attempts to tackle deprivation all the more urgent.

"When the powers that be declare there is an emergency, there is mobilisation," said the Rev. David...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: VietCatholic News Agency

http://www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/59351.htm

In a massive candlelight vigil protest at Orange County, California, Buddhist monks, Catholic priests, and leaders of other faiths led thousands of faithful to pray for Hanoi Catholics asking the Vietnam government to stop persecuting them and respect human rights.

Great Buddhist Venerable Thich Nguyen Tri, Chairman of Bat Nha Buddhist Temple...

Author: David Yonke

Source: The Toledo Blade

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080927/NEWS10/809270339

Construction begins today on the 6th Annual MultiFaith Council Habitat Build. But before the first spade of dirt was turned or a nail was hammered, volunteers from more than a dozen faith groups gathered in Sylvania to bless the project, share a meal, and build friendships.

The volunteer...