Author: Warren Richey

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0228/p03s03-usju.html

President Bush's faith-based initiative is a signature program of his administration. But not all Americans share the president's belief that the government should work in close partnership with religious organizations willing to perform nonreligious public services, like running homeless shelters or drug counseling programs.

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Author: CAROL SCOTT

Source: Daily Press

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-67838sy0feb28,0,1902634.story?coll=dp-news-local-final

WILLIAMSBURG -- A longtime donor to the College of William and Mary has revoked an approximately $12 million pledge to the university over the Wren Chapel cross controversy, school officials confirmed Tuesday.

The money, earmarked for the school's $500 million...

Author: CASEY CORA

Source: St. Petersburg Times

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/26/Tampabay/Officials_close_jailh.shtml

Buddhist chaplain Frank Tedesco has instructed murderers to "feel the cool air over the tip of their nose."

He has counseled drug dealers while they "followed their breath" during guided meditations. And by the dozens, inmates at the Pinellas County Jail requested his Saturday afternoon services and...

Author: Cindy V. Culp

Source: Waco Tribune-Herald

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/02/26/02262007wacphoenixproject.html

For decades, Richard Thompson has struggled with an injury he received during Marine Corps training.

But the Gholson resident doesn’t dwell on the loss of most of the hearing in his left ear. Instead, he is troubled that the resulting medical discharge...

Author: Patricia Blauvelt

Source: Chicago Flame

http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2007/02/26/News/Who-Would.A.Prayer.Room.Benefit-2741057.shtml

USG's Minority and Cultural Affairs Committee proposed an idea to all religions last semester, a united room for prayer on campus that would be open to all people without religious dogmas.

When...

Author: MARC PARRY

Source: Times Union

Source: National Council of Churches Press Release

http://www.ncccusa.org/news/070226iranopen.html

Washington, D.C., February 26, 2007 – The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told a delegation of American religious leaders visiting Tehran last Saturday that he is willing to engage in talks with the United States government.

"I have no reservation about conducting talks with American officials if we see some good will," President Ahmadinejad was quoted as...

Author: LISA BOLIVAR

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/471/story/21612.html

February is Hindu Heritage Month, and South Florida Hindus wasted no chance to celebrate their culture and faith with a series of programs at different temples throughout Broward.

The Maha Shivaratri, or Lord Shiva Festival, was observed Feb. 16 at the South Florida Hindu Temple and at the Shiva Vishnu Temple, both in Southwest Ranches. Devotees...

Source: Middle East Online

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19748

NEW YORK - An historic event took place in New Delhi, February 5-7, 2007, when a delegation of senior rabbis from Israel and other countries met top Hindu leaders for the first time to discuss a range of subjects including the relevance of tradition in everyday life, similarities and dissimilarities between the two religions and the promotion of education. They affirmed their shared values,...

Author: VICTORIA GUAY

Source: The Citizen of Laconia

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/CITIZEN_01/102250142/-1/CITIZEN

GILFORD - Trying something new for breakfast took on a more significant meaning at First United Methodist Church Saturday morning.

About 100 women of various faiths gathered at the church, located on Gilford Avenue, to share prayers, songs, stories and, yes,...

Author: Bettye Wells Miller

Source: The Press-Enterprise

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_olympics26.1a090af.html

When Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles visited Beijing last year, he posed a question that stumped his Chinese hosts: Have you considered the religious practices of athletes, officials and visitors attending the 2008 Olympic Games?

The answer was "No," Zhong Jianhua,...

Author: Pamela Miller

Source: Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/614/story/1022076.html

While growing up in Vermont, Sabrina Rood attended a Congregational church and did not know many Catholics. So when she moved to Minnesota and began taking psychology classes at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, she learned some things that weren't in the textbook.

One winter's day she got to class early and was reading when the first two...

Author: JUSTIN ELLIS

Source: Portland Press Herald

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/religion/stories/070224religion.html

The religious influence is obvious in such works of art as Leonardo DaVinci's "The Last Supper," Michelangelo's frescoes at the Sistine Chapel or any number of the Renaissance-period pieces depicting Madonna and Child.

But outside the clear iconography of certain religious traditions, how is art...

Author: Hannah Beech

Source: TIME Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1592574,00.html

How well do you know your husband? For Kaliammal Sinnasamy, a Hindu married to a member of the first Malaysian team to scale Mt. Everest, the answer, she thought, was obvious. "I married a Hindu man, lived with him as a Hindu, bore him a Hindu child and watched him die as a Hindu," says the now 32-year-old office cleaner. But when...