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Annual Pride Celebration Informs About Paganism

September 21, 2009

Author: Sherrel Jones

Source: The Daily Toreador

http://www.dailytoreador.com/la-vida/annual-pride-celebration-informs-about-paganism-1.1905553

An eclectic group of Pagans gathered Saturday at Clapp Park to raise awareness and celebrate the Pagan religion for the fourth annual Pagan Pride Day.

“Paganism is a blanket term,” said Denise Guinn, co-coordinator for Pagan Pride Lubbock chapter...

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Buddhists Are Hoping to Give a Blackpool Community a Boost

September 21, 2009

Author: Lisa Ettridge

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Blackpool Gazette

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8545,0,0,1,0

The Keajra Buddhist Centre in North Shore has undergone a £35,000 makeover.

The Holmfield Road centre has been given a total facelift including a new kitchen, re-decoration and improved access for disabled people.

Kelly Neale, administration director for the centre, said: "The centre is so much...

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Buddhists Are Hoping to Give a Blackpool Community a Boost

September 21, 2009

Author: Lisa Ettridge

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Blackpool Gazette

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8545,0,0,1,0

The Keajra Buddhist Centre in North Shore has undergone a £35,000 makeover.

The Holmfield Road centre has been given a total facelift including a new kitchen, re-decoration and improved access for disabled people.

Kelly Neale, administration director for the centre, said: "The centre is so much...

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Pagan Pride Festival Pegged to Fall Equinox

September 19, 2009

Author: Jim Warren

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

http://www.kentucky.com/964/story/941829.html

The third annual Lexington-Bluegrass Pagan Pride Day is Saturday — and you don't even have to be a pagan to attend the festivities.

Event spokeswoman Susan Kelch says the festival will offer plenty of attractions for everybody — food, music, kids' games, a petting zoo, diviners giving personal readings, vendors, arts and crafts for show and...

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‘A Bit Of Honey' for Area Jews In Need

September 18, 2009

Author: Claudia Feldman

Source: The Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6624579.html

Tonight, as 45,000 Jews in the Houston area dip apples into honey and pray for a sweet new year, those hardest hit by the recession and Hurricane Ike can look forward to a little extra sugar.

Just in time for the celebration of Rosh Hashana or the Jewish New Year, two local groups have announced the creation of a $...

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Groups Push to End Hiring Bias Legalized for Religious Charities

September 18, 2009

Author: Carrie Johnson

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091702530.html?wprss=rss_politics/fedpage

Nearly 60 groups concerned with civil rights, labor, health and education urged Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday to renounce a Bush-era memo allowing religious charities that receive federal grant money to...

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Imam Urges Muslims to Sign Organ Donor Cards

September 17, 2009

Author: Stuart Laidlaw

Source: The Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/living/religion/article/696581

With Ramadan ending in the coming days, Imam Habeeb Alli is making a special point of what he calls the greatest act of charity a Muslim can make during this holy month – signing an organ donor card.

"We cannot ignore this duty to donate our organs," says Alli, secretary of the Canadian Council of Imams.

Throughout the year,...

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Muslims Press for School Holidays In New York City

September 15, 2009

Author: Suzanne Sataline

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125297372149610431.html

Muslims groups here are pressing city officials to close public schools on two of the faith's holiest days, just as schools do for major Jewish and Christian holidays. But the groups have yet to persuade the man in charge of New York City schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Muslim groups have asked the city to cancel classes on...

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KC's Muslim Community Breaks Ramadan Fast With a Feast to Remember

September 15, 2009

Author: Anne Brockhoff

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/1446081.html

Shortly after 7 p.m. one recent Thursday evening, guests filtered into the warehouse-like Yummy’s Choice kitchen on 39th Street. A grinning Yahia Kamal, chef and owner of the Mediterranean foods company, is still cooking, so he bumps elbows with arriving friends, family and Facebook fans instead of shaking hands.

Kamal already has set out...

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