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    Islam Week to Build Understanding

    January 10, 2009

    Author: Staff Writer

    Source: BBC News

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/7821842.stm

    Non-Muslims in Gloucester are being invited to find out more about the Islamic faith during a week of events.

    Discover Islam Week has been organised by the city and county council and the police in partnership with the Friendship Cafe in Barton Street.

    Organisers say the idea is for visitors to taste,...

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    Indian Supreme Court Warns Orissa Over Religious Violence

    January 7, 2009

    Author: Achal Narayanan

    Source: Religion News Service

    http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=17290

    India's Supreme Court has told the state government of Orissa that it will not "tolerate persecution of religious minorities" and if the state government cannot protect Christians, "then quit office."

    A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court issued the warning Monday (Jan. 5) following a petition filed by Roman Catholic Archbishop Raphael...

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    Atheists Send a Message, On 800 British Buses

    January 6, 2009

    Author: Sarah Lyall

    Source: The New York Times

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07london.html?ref=europe

    The advertisement on the bus was fairly mild, just a passage from the Bible and the address of a Christian Web site. But when Ariane Sherine, a comedy writer, looked on the Web site in June, she was startled to learn that she and her nonbelieving friends were headed straight to hell, to “spend all eternity in...

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    Holy Land Foundation Court Case Puts Burden On Muslim Charities to Explain Where Money Goes

    January 4, 2009

    Author: Jason Trahan

    Source: The Dallas Morning News

    http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-muslimgifts_04met.ART0.Central.Edition1.4a54563.html

    American Muslims are finding it more difficult to donate money to help Palestinian refugees and other Middle Eastern causes because of court decisions showing that some charities were using the money for...

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    Egyptian Women Break New Ground At the Mosque

    January 4, 2009

    Author: Hadeel Al-Shalchi

    Source: The Associated Press

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010400667.html

    Amira Khairy is mobbed by housewives kissing her cheeks in greeting as she arrives to give a lesson on reciting the Quran to women at the Al-Sedeeq mosque in a Cairo suburb. Students set up chairs for the class, and soon the hum of chanting female voices fills one of the building's...

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    Swimming In Modesty: Muslim Women Head to Secluded Pool

    January 7, 2009

    Author: Yonat Shimron

    Source: The News Tribune

    http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/religion/story/587069.html

    Salman Sheikh was organizing a swim class for his two sons last summer when fellow Muslim parents approached him about starting a class for girls.

    Sheikh told them he would ask the Curran Aquatic Center in Cary, N.C., whether it could accommodate a group of Muslims who preferred a women-only pool.
    ...

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    Burmese Buddhist Monastery Opens In Finland

    January 5, 2009

    Author: Yee May Aung

    Source: The Buddhist Channel/DVB

    http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=71,7596,0,0,1,0

    The first Burmese Buddhist monastery in Finland was officially consecrated in Kuopio on 3 January by five monks led by Penang abbot U Pannya Wuntha and abbot U Uttara of London’s Sasana Ramsi Vihara.

    The Buddha Dhamma Ramsi monastery was set up by Burmese Buddhists living in Finland with the help of the abbots,...

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