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Interfaith Peace Walk Underway in Northwest

July 20, 2007

Source: Salem News

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july202007/interfaith_walk_72007.php

(EUGENE, ORE.) - Monks from the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple on Bainbridge Island are leading a Interfaith Peace Walk that began in Eugene July 16th and ends August 6th at the Trident Nuclear submarine base at Bangor, Washington.

With the theme "Hiroshima-Nagasaki to Hope" the walk will commemorate the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by U.S....

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Religious Groups Fear Immigration Proposals are Unfair, Burdensome

July 20, 2007

Author: KARIN BRULLIARD

Source: Washington Post

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/4986164.html

WASHINGTON — At the Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Lanham, Md., 11 Hindu priests recite mantras before intricately chiseled altars to deities carved by expert temple stonemasons.

They offer the idols lentils and rice prepared in a small kitchen by Haridas Padithaya, 38, who looks like a line cook in his stained T-shirt...

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American Lawmakers Vow to Fight Racial Profiling of Sikhs

July 20, 2007

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/50CDD7166BA972BB8725731E0064CC76

Washington: Several influential US lawmakers from the Senate and House praised the Sikh community and pledged to fight racial profiling of them in the aftermath of 9/11 at the fourth Sikh American Dinner Reception on Capitol Hill.

US Congresswoman Diane Watson, California Democrat, and a former ambassador in the Clinton...

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"Suicide by Any Name is Prohibited in Islam," a Commentary by Javeed Akhter, a Muslim-American Doctor

July 19, 2007

Author: Javeed Akhter

Source: Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/851/story/175115.html

The enormity of what happened in London and Glasgow, Scotland, dawned upon me slowly. First there were the two high-end cars filled with explosive materials, parked in the middle of London, that, mercifully, did not explode. Next, the bizarre report of two people in a burning SUV trying to crash into the main terminal of the Glasgow airport, filled with travelers...

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Press Release: Statement from the Hindu American Foundation Celebrating Opening of the U.S. Senate With Hindu Prayer

July 18, 2007

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hafsite.org/media_press_release_nevada_prayer.htm

The Hindu American Foundation joins all Hindu Americans in celebrating yesterday's epochal events in our community's history in the United States. Yesterday, the faith of 2 million American Hindus and nearly 1 billion of the world's population was represented in the chambers of the U.S. Senate for the first time. Shri Rajan Zed's prayer recitation shared with our fellow...

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Hindu American Foundation Highlights Plight of Hindus in South Asia at Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing

July 18, 2007

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/media_press_release_hhr_congress_hearing.htm

Washington, D.C. (July 18, 2007) -- In a first of its kind, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) was invited by the House of Representatives Congressional Human Rights Caucus to testify at a briefing on human rights in South Asia yesterday. The briefing, held at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, was co-sponsored...

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Worship Denied to Buddhists at a Virginia Beach Home

July 18, 2007

Source: MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19736083/

Songs and prayers are offered at the only Buddhist Temple in Virginia Beach.

"I've received a lot of peace from this," Samantha Nezgoda said as she stood in the worship area. It's inside a home on West Neck Road near Pungo. The community is zoned agricultural with rural residences.

Thanh Cong Doan bought the property and moved in about a year and a half ago. He is out of town right now, but another monk, Thanh Chuc...

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RRC Receives $300,000 From Henry Luce Foundation for Interfaith Education

July 18, 2007

Source: PressZoom

http://presszoom.com/story_137377.html

(PressZoom) - Wyncote, PA, July 18 — The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College has received a $300,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support a unique and comprehensive initiative to improve understanding among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

The three-year grant—the first major award from the foundation to a rabbinical school for interfaith work—will allow RRC to put in place a groundbreaking...

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‘Feed the Homeless Campaign’ by Sikhs Shatters Records

July 18, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Panthic Weekly

http://www.panthic.org/news/123/ARTICLE/3435/2007-07-18.html

Vancouver, BC - Sikhcess, a community organization dedicated to highlighting Sikh achievements and promoting the basic Sikh principles of public service, today announced that on Sunday, June 24, 2007, local volunteers successfully prepared, packaged, and delivered a record number of food packages to homeless communities in Vancouver...

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Christians Told to Unite with Moderate Muslims Against Mega-Mosque

July 17, 2007

Author: Maria Mackay

Source: Christian Today

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christians.told.to.unite.with.moderate.muslims.against.megamosque/11622.htm

Christians gathered for this year’s Keswick Convention have been urged to unite with the “fair-minded” Muslim community of East London in opposing plans to build a mega-mosque there.

This was the call of...

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Four Arab-Americans Claim Discrimination in Suit Against FedEx

July 17, 2007

Source: Boston Herald

Wire Service: AP

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1011797

BOSTON - Four Arab-American men claim in a lawsuit filed against FedEx Corp. that their supervisors subjected them to religious and ethnic slurs, called them terrorists and gave them less lucrative delivery routes.

"They all came to this country because they wanted a better life for their families, and this is...

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AJC: Hindu Prayer in U.S. Senate Promotes Diversity

July 17, 2007

Source: American Jewish Committee

http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=1531911&ct=4137375

July 17, 2007 – New York – The American Jewish Committee is deeply troubled by the verbal assault on Rajan Zed, a Hindu religious leader who delivered the opening prayer on the Senate floor last week.

“Senate Majority leader Harry Reid's invitation to Rajan Zed to become the first Hindu to deliver an opening...

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No 10 Site in Mosque Petition Row

July 17, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6902367.stm

More than 255,000 people have signed a petition on the Downing Street website against any plans to build Britain's biggest mosque in East London.

The petition, currently the most popular on the No 10 site, calls for the "mega mosque" to be scrapped as it will "cause terrible violence".

But London mayor Ken Livingstone said it was...

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Bali Meeting Promotes Tolerance in Indonesia

July 16, 2007

Author: Peter Gelling

Source: International Herald Tribune

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/16/asia/indonesia-gelling.php

JIMBARAN, Indonesia: Spiritual leaders from around the world met here in Bali on Tuesday to take a stand against religious-inspired violence and to urge other religious leaders to join them.

"We are trying to meet partners from around the globe, from all religions, who can take a leadership role and...

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