Author: Dr. Balwant Singh Hansra

Source: The Daily Herald

Author: Richard Dymond

Source: The Bradenton Herald

http://www.bradenton.com/local/story/708194.html

Bradenton's Habeebah Wahb, 12, nibbled on chicken and meatballs and mingled with fellow members of the Manatee-Sarasota Women's Interfaith Group on Sunday.

Habeebah, who attends Lee Middle School, is the youngest member of this relatively new and intriguing local group made up of about 70 women who celebrate their differences and similarities,...

Author: Sarah Pulliam

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/29/faithcamp.ART_ART_06-29-08_B3_90AK7DI.html?sid=101

A summer camp is attempting to do what armies often cannot: make peace.

Israeli teenagers will be in the same cabins as Palestinian youths during the two-week summer camp in what might...

Author: Angela Pezzotti

Source: SooNews.ca

http://www.soonews.ca/viewarticle.php?id=17835

Syed Soharwardy put his ideas into action this summer when he began his Multi Faith Walk Against Violence. Soharwardy is very active in the Multi Faith community and he wanted to widen the audience for his message of peace beyond the mosques, churches and synagogues he visited so on April 20th in Halifax Nova Scotia he began his cross country walk.

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Author: Magdi Abdelhadi

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7477108.stm

The week that Saudi Arabia held its first ever conference on interfaith dialogue, Morocco was hosting its 14th festival of World Sacred Music.

Artists from all over the world converged on its ancient city of Fez, to the east of the capital Rabat. While the Saudi gathering was made up of only Muslim clerics discussing a framework for future dialogue...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Times-Herald

http://www.times-herald.com/religion/Religious-groups-gaining-higher-profile-at-UN--494185

The United Nations is working with religious groups in new ways.

What has changed, according to Hilario G. Davide, permanent representative of the Philippine Mission to the UN, and others, is the emergence of a new understanding that closer collaboration with religions is...

Author: Elham Asaad Buaras

Source: The Muslim News

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3569

Inclusion not exclusion, that is the verdict on the role of faith groups in the EU at a summit hosted by the UK’s Minister for Europe, Jim Murphy.

The seminar on Faith and Culture in modern Europe was organised in association with the Foreign Office on May 2 with the aim of addressing the ‘ghettoisation’ of...

Author: Kalpit Parajuli

Source: Asia News

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12627&size=A

Confessional schools will be recognised by the state and receive public funds but must in return adapt to a national curriculum. This change does not pose any problem to Catholic schools, which are among the best in the country, but not so for all confessional schools which must implement major changes.

“Small amounts of money have been...

Author: David Williams

Source: Evening Standard

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23500359-details/Pray+and+display%3A+the+new+religious+parking+permit/article.do

A unique "pray and display" parking permit for drivers carrying out religious duties is being launched.

Barnet council says it will provide religious leaders with permits allowing them to park...

Author: Ronald D. White

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-gas17-2008jun17,0,3727715,full.story

Record gasoline prices have been painful, but now they have begun to test the limits of faith.

In houses of worship nationwide, preachers are railing against the forces of energy evil, and congregations are praying for lower fuel prices.

So far, no...

Author: Neela Banerjee

Source: The New York Times

Author: Rebecca Rosen Lum

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/bayandstate/ci_9667579

Most religious Americans believe there is more than one road to God, and more than one divine destination, a new report shows.

The report, released today by the Pew Forum on Religion...

Author: Nik Khusairi Ibrahim

Source: The Malaysia Star

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/23/nation/21627078&sec=nation

Penang will allocate state funds fairly to all major religions to ensure that none is discriminated against or marginalised, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said.

He said the state government would treat all religions equally.

“We have also formed an inter-religious...

Author: Joel Jacobson

Source: The Chronicle Herald

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1063478.html

Cake and drinks attracted a group of teens to a meeting they didn’t know was about a graduation interfaith service.

When Grade 12 students Mohanad Khairy, Warda Limaye, Sarah Coley and Becky Selig left the meeting at Citadel High School in Halifax, they were convinced it was a good thing to do.

On Tuesday night, a few weeks of...