Author: Anum Azam

Source: Johns Hopkins Newsletter

http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2007/11/29/NewsFeatures/IslamoFascism.Week.Prompts.Students.To.Hold.Service.Event-3123133.shtml

The Gilman tunnel is not exactly the ideal location for a bakery, scarf factory and artists' meeting spot to coexist.

And yet,...

Author: Farah Stockman

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2007/11/28/mideast_peace_talks_advance/

After seven years without progress toward Mideast peace, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday pledged to launch immediate negotiations aimed at creating a Palestinian state by the end of next year. RELATED NEWS:

* Mideast peace talks...

Author: Philip Pullella

Source: The Star Online

Wire Service: Reuters

Source: American Muslim

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/abrahams_vision_produces_student_made_unity_program_documentary/0015080

(New York, NY, 11/27/2007) Sara Hadi and Rebecca Katz, two Muslim and Jewish graduates from the Al-Iman School and the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City, partnered and produced a ten-minute documentary upon their graduation from the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Kuwait Times

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=ODc1MjY4ODM5

Foreign powers have influenced presidential elections in Lebanon since it gained independence from France in 1943, amid a complex system dictated by religious and political considerations. And now as parliament is due to convene to find a successor for pro-Syrian incumbent Emile Lahoud,...

Author: June Arney

Source: The Baltimore Sun

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-te.md.rally26nov26,0,3703663.story

Ella Issacharoff knew exactly why she joined more than 100 people in Annapolis yesterday at an international and interfaith rally for peace.

"I want to represent the kids of Israel, and we would like peace with the Palestinian children," said Ella, 12, an Israeli who now...

Author: Shlomo Shamir

Source: Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/928302.html

The Islamic Center of Long Island (ICLI), considered one of the largest leading Muslim centers among the U.S. Muslim community, awarded a special honor to Orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier on Sunday.

400 Muslim religious leaders and businessman took part in the center's annual dinner Sunday. Those in attendance welcomed Schneier with much applause as the heads of...

Author: Tom Heneghan

Source: Reuters

http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN540920.html

The Vatican plans to respond positively and very soon to an appeal by Muslim scholars for an unprecedented dialogue between Christianity and Islam, Roman Catholic cardinals and Islam experts say.

The Catholic Church, representing more than half the world's two billion Christians, has not yet officially answered the call made last month and hailed by...

Author: George Conger

Source: Religious Intelligence

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=1227

INTERFAITH dialogue is a worthwhile investment in the war against Islamist terrorism, the Bishop of St Albans has said.

Speaking in response to the Prime Minister’s national security speech to the House of Commons, Bishop Christopher Herbert told the House of Lords the government would benefit from the experiences of the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The News Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/religion/story/211739.html

A senior Vatican diplomat who served as papal envoy to Israel has described Vatican-Israeli relations as worsening, blaming the Jewish state for failing to keep promises related to church land, taxes and travel restrictions on Arab clergy.

Archbishop Pietro Sambi lashed out at...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Indian Muslims

http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/nov/23/us_embassy_hold_interfaith_conference_delhi.html

In a bid to reach out to the large Muslim population in South Asia, the American embassy in India will hold a conference of Interfaith Coalition for Peace in New Delhi January next year.

"We plan to organise a conference of Interfaith Coalition for Peace at...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Middle East Online

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=23227

From opposite sides of the wall that once divided Jerusalem, Israeli Shlomo Yirmiyahu and Palestinian Yakoob Arrajabi watched in 1967 as Israeli army seized the Arab east of the city.

Now, as their leaders prepare for talks about peace, the two devoutly religious men are trying to imagine the future of their home town, which...

Author: CHRISTINA VANOVERBEKE

Source: East Valley Tribune

http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2007/11/25/news/local/local14.txt

MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A group of teenagers gathered in Ahwatukee Foothills on a recent Monday afternoon to discuss the Jewish faith. But they got a little hung up on the concept of the Sabbath as a day of rest.

‘‘You're not allowed to drive? So you have to walk everywhere?''...

Author: Tracy Idell Hamilton

Source: Express-News

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/religion/stories/MYSA112307.01B.interfaith_service.263a14a.html

The inside of San Fernando Cathedral fairly glowed with warmth on Thanksgiving morning. Outside, the arctic wind that had blown in the night before was sharp, the morning still gray.

Wearing jackets and scarves dug from the backs of closets, coats and...

Author: BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

Source: The Kansas City Star/McClatchy Newspapers

http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/373964.html

Judged solely by one of the big, bold words on its cover, the book that Fadel Mahmoud clutched in his hands would be considered blasphemous in many parts of the Muslim world.

Most people in Kurdish northern Iraq believe that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is the final word on religious life. Mahmoud and other teachers...