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Zimbabwe: 'Jews to Be Airlifted Out'

June 13, 2008

Author: Ralph Mutema

Source: The Zimbabwe Guardian

http://allafrica.com/stories/200806130212.html

A MISSION to airlift some members of the Zimbabwean Jewish community to Israel is alleged to have been launched by the Jewish Agency, according to a report published in the Jewish Chronicle.

"Staff have spoken individually to every member of the 350-strong community and are believed to be making arrangements for their removal at short notice,"...

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Jewish General To Pilot Evangelical-Friendly Air Force

June 12, 2008

Author: Marc Perelman

Source: The Jewish Daily Forward

http://www.forward.com/articles/13574/

When he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., in the early 1970s, Norton Schwartz did not hide his religion under his blue-and-white uniform.

A member of the academy’s Jewish choir before graduating in 1973, according to one of his classmates, Schwartz has since risen up the ranks and on June 9 was appointed Air Force chief by...

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Pagan Symbols on Fence Must Go, City Insists

June 10, 2008

Author: Melissa Walker

Source: The Des Moines Register

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080610/NEWS/806100380/-1/LIFE04

Robert Frost once said "good fences make good neighbors."

Apparently not when the fence is used to express religious beliefs.

A Des Moines couple say city officials have attacked their pagan religion and their civil rights after a complaint...

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England: Religious Leaders Call for Cooperation to Combat Poverty

June 9, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Episcopal Life

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97713_ENG_HTM.htm

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, June 9 hosted religious leaders of different faiths to discuss the power of multi-religious cooperation to combat poverty and achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Williams is a co-president of Religions for Peace, the largest multi-religious coalition.

"Mobilizing the...

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Baha’i Faith Picnic Celebrates Diversity in Community

June 8, 2008

Author: Jessica Jordan

Source: Gainesville Time

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/6254/

Red and yellow, black and white were all welcomed to the Race Unity Day picnic at Wilshire Trails Park by the Baha’i faith of Hall County.

Race Unity Day took place Sunday and is a concept local Baha’i community members have celebrated at Longwood Park or Wilshire Trails Park for at least the past 10 years, said Baha’i...

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Muslim Leaders Affirm Saudi King's Interfaith Effort

June 6, 2008

Author: Caryle Murphy

Source: Religion News Service/The Pew Forum

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=15791

Hundreds of Muslim leaders from around the world have endorsed Saudi King Abdullah's recent call for intensified interfaith dialogue in order to dampen global conflict and demonstrate Islam's commitment to solving world problems.

The declaration came on Friday (June 6) at the close of a three-day conference in Islam's holy city...

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Mom Saw Chance for Muslim Girls to Expand Lives

June 2, 2008

Author: Jennifer O'Brien

Source: The London Free Press

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/06/02/5742206-sun.html

They hike, sell cookies, do good deeds for badges and, like all Girl Guides, promise to do their best.

And most of them do it wearing hijabs.

Meet London's first Muslim Girl Guide troop, spearheaded by a Somali mom who saw and seized an opportunity to empower her girls, her way.

"We...

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Scalia Decries Drift of Court On Religion

June 2, 2008

Author: Joseph Goldstein

Source: The Sun

http://www.nysun.com/national/scalia-decries-drift-of-court-on-religion/79084/

Justice Scalia, speaking at a time when gay marriage, public education, and the war on terror are creating cases that test the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, chose the banquet of a large group of Orthodox Jews here to declare that the Constitution should not be read to "banish the Almighty...

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Taoist Spiritual Blessings

June 1, 2008

Author: Yang Xi

Source: China.org.cn

http://www.china.org.cn/2008-06/01/content_15575904.htm

At Heming Mountain in Dayi County of Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, a prayer meeting was organized on May 31 by the China Association of Taoism, supported by the Sichuan Province Association of Taoism.

The objective of the prayer meeting was to bring blessings and consolation to victims in the quake-hit areas and mourn...

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Students Protest Order to Remove Statue of Jesus

May 31, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The News Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/religion/story/377020.html

Two students who put up a small statue of Jesus in their high school said their freedom of speech was violated when they were asked to take it down.

Mount Abraham Union High School Principal Paulette Bogan said the statue violated a policy requiring student displays to exhibit...

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Bolton Faiths Unite for Victims of Disasters

May 30, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Bolton News

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.2309259.0.bolton_faiths_unite_for_victims_of_disasters.php

Religious groups from Bolton are coming together to raise funds for the victims of two devastating natural disasters.

The Bolton Interfaith Council is organising a "Helping in Harmony" event following the cyclone in Burma and the Chinese...

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Tiny Amish Sect in Pennsylvania Clashes with State Over Unlikely Religion Issue: Outhouses

May 30, 2008

Author: Genaro C. Armas

Source: Star Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/19385369.html?location_refer=Faith%20+%20Values

Amish farmer Andy Swartzentruber is determined to live the simple life of his forefathers, plowing his field with a horse-drawn tractor, getting around in a horse-drawn buggy and offering eggs for sale to help support his family....

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Group Asks for Diversity in Council Prayers

May 30, 2008

Author: Emily Anderson

Source: Grand Junction Free Press

http://gjfreepress.com/article/20080530/COMMUNITY_NEWS/817730522

A local atheist group wants more religious diversity in the prayers said before Grand Junction City Council meetings.

Members of the Western Colorado Atheists and Free Thinkers group met with Grand Junction City Manager Laurie Kadrich and City Attorney John Shaver Wednesday. Anne Landman, a WCAFT member who...

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