Author: Kanwal Prakash Singh

Source: The Indianapolis Star

http://newsfromyou.indystar.com/posts/interfaith-gathering-at-the-sikh-temple-sikh-satsang-honors-rev-kent-millard-and-others

The Sikh Temple (Acton Road) in Indianapolis dedicated the last Sunday of January to the important work and vision of Interfaith Hunger Initiative (IHI). The Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis...

Author: Sarah Posner

Source: The Religion Dispatches Magazine

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/sarahposner/4164/religious_leaders_demand_apology_from_west_for_anti-islam_comments/

An interfaith group of religious leaders has sent a letter to freshman Republican Allen West of Florida, calling him to apologize for anti-Islam remarks he made recently on an...

Author: Fiona Dryden

Source: The Leicester Mercury

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Hindu-school-city-given-ahead/article-3164764-detail/article.html

The Krishna-Avanti Primary will be one of the coalition Government's new "free" schools – set up by charities, parents or teachers outside local authority control but paid for by the state.

Author: David Lawrence

Source: The Detroit Free-Press

http://www.freep.com/print/article/20110131/NEWS02/110131014/Sikh-students-can-wear-dagger-Plymouth-Canton-schools-modifications

The Plymouth-Canton school district has opted to allow Sikh students to wear a small, religious dagger to school.

The decision reverses a ban put in place in December...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NECN

Wire Service: AP

Author: Nick Wing

Source: The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/south-carolina-sharia-law-ban_n_816339.html

A group of South Carolina legislators recently proposed a bill to counteract the perceived risk of Islamic-based Sharia law, as well as other foreign law, from being used by the state's legal system.

Author: Peter Skerry and Gary Schmitt

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/01/29/silence_from_muslim__americans/

Amid the uproar earlier this month over the assassination of Salmaan Taseer, the secularist governor of the Pakistani province of Punjab, Muslim-American organizations have been largely silent. At a time when mainstream...

Author: Adelle M. Banks

Source: BeliefNet News

Wire Service: RNS

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/01/muslim-leaders-condemn-holocau.php

Prominent Muslim leaders who toured Nazi concentration camps last summer marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by decrying attempts to deny the Holocaust that killed six million Jews.

Author: Cathy Lynn Grossman

Source: USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-01-27-PewMuslimInside27_ST_N.htm?csp=34news

Mustafa Qureshi, a Cub Scout, holds an American flag and his sister, Aisha, joins in reciting King's "I Have a Dream" speech at a community center.

These are the people U.S. Muslims want people to see as their neighbors — not shadowy radicals envisioned by anti-Islamic...

Author: Nasser Hanif

Source: The BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12294215

Jewish and Muslim students are joining forces to tackle anti-Semitism and Islamophobia on university campuses - in a bid to spread a message of tolerance.

One of those with first-hand experience of religious hatred is Yassir, who as a student in 2004 was abused as he set off for his mosque in London. Four teenagers spat at him and called him "Bin Laden".

Author: Mark Miesse

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012605698.html

A group of nine Hawaii senators held hands, bowed their heads and sought God's blessing Wednesday, signaling that they'll still pray despite a vote last week to abandon official invocations.

Fears of court challenges compelled the...

Author: Dan Gilgoff

Source: CNN Belief Blog

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/24/opponent-of-ny-islamic-center-becomes-advocate-for-mosques-nationwide/?hpt=Sbin

When the Anti-Defamation League - a leading Jewish group devoted to fighting anti-Semitism and "all forms of bigotry" - came out against the construction of an Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero last...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The CathNews India

http://www.cathnewsindia.com/2011/01/24/sri-lankan-religious-leaders-form-peace-body/

The prime minister and religious leaders in Sri Lanka have jointly formed a peace body to promote communal harmony within the country.

Prime Minister Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Jayaratne and Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Muslim religious leaders inaugurated the...

Author: Kevin Welch

Source: The Amarillo Globe-News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7393971.html

An Amarillo memorial company has delivered a 4-ton gift from Oldham County residents to the county Courthouse Square: the Ten Commandments etched in granite.

"It's not going to blow away anytime soon," said Jim Watkins, one of the leaders of the effort. "If it does, we...

Author: Laurent Bonczijk

Source: The Newberg Graphic

http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2011/January/21/Religion/church.field.trip.tours.hindu.temple/news.aspx

More than two dozen congregants from Newberg’s First United Methodist Church had a taste of India on Wednesday. They didn’t go out for lunch, but instead visited a Hindu temple in Tigard.