Author: Staff Writer

Source: PRNewswire

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Sikh Coalition

http://www.sikhcoalition.org/advisories/TurbanBrandingPressConference.htm

On Tuesday, a majority of the New York City Council called on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to end a policy requiring Sikh workers to brand their turbans with the MTA logo. 27 of the Council's 51 members sent a letter to Howard Roberts, president of MTA New York City Transit, charging that the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Daily Times

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009

Interfaith League Against Poverty (ILAP) on Monday organised a collective prayer of different religions and a poster exhibition to promote interfaith peace and harmony in the country.

More than 100 Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Bahais turned up at the ILAP’s F-8/4 offices to attend the event, which marked the World Interfaith Day....

Author: Fadia Galindo

Source: CNSNews.com

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49870

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, told the State of New York in 1994 that it must allow prison inmates who practice Santeria to wear multi-colored beads. Santeria is a sect that combines African religious traditions with elements drawn from Roman Catholicism.

In the case of Campos...

Author: Elise Franco

Source: Vindy.com

http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/jun/21/group-marks-summer-solstice/?newswatch

Some members of a local church are rediscovering their American Indian heritage, and others are learning about it for the first time.

To kick off the summer solstice, which is the first day of summer and the longest day of the year, members of the Unity Church Centre in Girard organized a two-day...

Author: Chris Schutz

Source: NewsOK

http://newsok.com/del-city-midwest-city-educators-receive-lesson-about-religious-liberties/article/3379084#comments

True or false:

A: A Sikh student can wear a ceremonial dagger to school.

B: A Roman Catholic student can give a talk in class about how she learned to pray the rosary.

C: A Jewish boy can come to school...

Author: Katherine Marshall

Source: The Washington Post/Newsweek

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2009/06/level_playing_field.html

The meeting room at the Washington office of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life was packed last Wednesday to hear from Joshua DuBois, head of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

All of 26 years old, DuBois quickly...

Author: Adam Lisberg

Source: NY Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/06/16/2009-06-16_sikhs_say_council_backs_em_vs_mta.html

Sikh transit workers say they've won the support of a majority of the City Council in their battle against being forced to wear an MTA logo on their turbans.

"Folks have reached a point of frustration," said Amardeep Singh, executive director of the Sikh...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: World Council of Churches

http://www.oikoumene.org/en/news/news-management/eng/a/article/1722/bible-is-the-quotultima.html

In a worship service opening the "Churches against Racism" conference in Doorn, Netherlands, 14-17 June, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia said the Bible was the "ultimate immigration handbook".

Kobia asked...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: News Blaze

http://newsblaze.com/story/20090615043330zzzz.nb/topstory.html

Starting on June 21, Sikh Youth of America will organize the "First National Sikh Blood Drive" to help overcome the blood shortage faced by the nation. In order to achieve this goal they have joined hands with various blood collection agencies including American Red Cross and Blood Centers of America.

Sikh Youth of America is a...

Author: Michael Paulson

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/14/roxbury_mosque_to_open_formally_this_month/

The long-awaited, much-debated new mosque in Roxbury Crossing is scheduled formally to open at the end of this month.

The Muslim American Society, which is operating the new Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, or ISBCC...

Author: Lanz Christian Bañes

Source: Times-Herald

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_12583943?source=most_emailed

The Vallejo Intertribal Council will host a concert today in People's Park to raise awareness of the Glen Cove shellmound.

The shellmound -- a sacred site used for burial by Native American peoples -- is at Glen Cove Waterfront Park and has been a source of tension between native groups and the Greater Vallejo...

Author: Robert Boczkiewicz

Source: Tulsa World

Author: Anju Kaur

Source: SikhNN

http://www.sikhnn.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=677&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

In the run-off election Tuesday for Hoboken, N. J., mayor and council, Ravinder Singh Bhalla won the most votes for councilman-at-large, which will give him the national distinction of holding one of the highest elected offices as a Sikh.

“This...

Author: Sean Murphy

Source: The Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6467815.html

Backers of a new law authorizing a privately funded Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of Oklahoma's Capitol didn't get good news this week.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a similar display at the Haskell County...