Author: Daniel Libit

Source: POLITICO

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23488.html

How much faith should the faithless put in Barack Obama?

The president said in his inaugural address that the United States is “a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers.” And in his commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame, he said that the Golden Rule binds “people of all faiths and no faith...

Author: Chris Henwood

Source: Birmingham Mail

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/06/09/smethwick-sikh-leaders-grateful-to-police-97319-23822274/

Police officers have won praise from Sikh leaders for rebuilding community links in the aftermath of violence at Vaisakhi celebrations in April, 2007.

Committee members from the Guru Nanak Gurdwara, in Smethwick High...

Author: Ari B. Bloomekatz

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs8-2009jun08,0,2876658.story

Rabbi Ted Riter of Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks told throngs of demonstrators Sunday that it was important to rally against the deadly violence in Sudan because one day the marchers' grandchildren will ask: Where were you?

"We . . . made a promise to our ancestors to never forget,"...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Syracuse.com

Wire Service: AP

Author: William Wan

Source: The Washington Post

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/godingovernment/2009/06/mission_of_obamas_faith-based_panel_includes_poverty_climate_change_abortion.html

The council created to advise President Obama on faith-based issues held its first official meetings via a conference call this afternoon. Over the course of an...

Author: James Rynaseiwicz

Source: MyNorthwest.com

Author: Felicia R. Lee

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/05musl.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

The hookahs looked like exotic animals lurking in Hookahnuts, a shop for gifts and food in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. In various shades of red, blue and green, these water pipes, used to smoke flavored tobacco, were the most vivid sign of the shop’s Middle Eastern culture, presented among an eye-catching...

Author: Kripa Krishnan

Source: The Buddhist Channel

Wire Service: PTI

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=42,8227,0,0,1,0

What does Barack Obama have in common with the Gyalwang Drukpa, spiritual leader of the 800-year-old Buddhist sect? The answer involves some hundred volunteers who march alongside the monks and nuns of the faith through the Himalayas on a 'padyatra'.

Many of the volunteers...

Author: Christie Wilson

Source: The Honolulu Advertiser

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090531/NEWS23/905310377/1001

Debate over a legislative resolution designating Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day is testing Hawai'i's reputation as a cultural melting pot.

House Concurrent Resolution 100, establishing a single day this year to acknowledge "the rich religious, scientific, cultural, and artistic contributions" of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Detroit News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090528/LIFESTYLE04/905280485/1041/LIFESTYLE04/Atheists-lose-lawsuit-over-Detroit-s-downtown-aid

A federal appeals court says Detroit did not violate the Constitution when it partially reimbursed churches for renovations before the Super Bowl and...

Author: Mona Khaitan

Source: Lokvani

http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=5730

Over 1,500 Hindu Americans assembled at Marlborough Middle School on May 17 to celebrate the 13th Hindu Heritage Day. To mark this annual occasion, The Mayor of City of Marlborough, Nancy E. Stevens, pro claimed SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2009 as “HINDU...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN27227774

A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed down 65-year prison sentences to two founders of a U.S. Islamic charity convicted of illegally funneling $12.4 million to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The sentences came some six months after a grand jury convicted the Holy Land Foundation and five of its leaders for conspiracy to support a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/southvalley/ci_12463599

Mayors Ralph Becker, Kent Money and JoAnn Sehgeni will inaugurate the "Chariot Festival" or "Rathothsava" and Annual Day Celebrations of Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple (SGHT) and India Cultural Center on May 30 at the temple premises in South Jordan.

The event is free and open to the public between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Rathothsava is a pageant...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: West Yorkshire Police

Author: Khalid Saeed

Source: American Muslim Voice

http://www.amvphoto.amuslimvoice.org/html/woodland_picnic_2009.html

American Muslim Voice Woodland chapter held its second annual multi-faith peace picnic on Saturday, May 23, 2009, at Fren Park. Like last year, the picnic was well attended by different faith and ethnic groups. It attracted people near and far.

AMV Woodland chapter President Muhammad Usman Sadiq was MC of...