Author: Samuel G. Freedman

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/12religion.html?ref=religionandbelief

In a San Antonio chapel last August, after reciting their wedding vows and exchanging their rings, Sally and Mark Austin prepared to receive communion for the first time as husband and wife. Just before they did, their minister asked them to sign a document. It was a ketubah, a traditional Jewish...

Author: David A. James

Source: The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

http://newsminer.com/bookmark/11397691-Face-of-Islam

To the editor:

For two years, my sister has been a contract bookkeeper for a Muslim-owned taxi company in Seattle. Mohamed, the company owner, has been a generous friend to her since they met.

Author: Francis X. Rocca

Source: BeliefNet News

Wire Service: RNS

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/02/vatican-to-draft-guidelines-fo.php

Controversies over bioethical standards at U.S. Catholic hospitals show the need for greater Catholic education for health care workers, Vatican officials said Thursday (Feb. 3).

Author: Binaj Gurubacharya

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020101814.html?wprss=rss_religion/wires

Christians in Nepal threatened Tuesday to parade corpses in front of the parliament building after the government ruled last week that an area near a revered Hindu temple could no...

Author: Dan Elliott

Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.startribune.com/nation/114858504.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiacyKUzyaP37D_ncyD_2yckUr

A Colorado theology school is teaching Air Force chaplains to consider the religious beliefs of servicemen and women to better help them cope with post-traumatic stress.

The goal is to...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NECN

Wire Service: AP

Author: Yeganeh June Torbati

Source: The Baltimore Sun

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-30/news/bs-md-local-egyptian-community-20110130_1_coptic-christians-protests-egypt-last-week

As they have done for nearly 20 years, members of the close-knit and expanding community of Coptic Christians in Maryland prayed Sunday morning at a church in Savage, the red-brick...

Author: Francis X. Rocca

Source: BeliefNet News

Wire Service: RNS

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/01/vatican-to-launch-dialogue-wit.php

The Vatican announced a new initiative aimed at promoting dialogue between theists and atheists to be launched with a two-day event this March in Paris.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Denver Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_17178700?source=commented-

The Air Force Academy superintendent's choice of speaker for a prayer luncheon next month has come under fire from a frequent foe of religious practices at the school.

Author: Kevin Welch

Source: The Amarillo Globe-News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7393971.html

An Amarillo memorial company has delivered a 4-ton gift from Oldham County residents to the county Courthouse Square: the Ten Commandments etched in granite.

"It's not going to blow away anytime soon," said Jim Watkins, one of the leaders of the effort. "If it does, we...

Author: Laurent Bonczijk

Source: The Newberg Graphic

http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2011/January/21/Religion/church.field.trip.tours.hindu.temple/news.aspx

More than two dozen congregants from Newberg’s First United Methodist Church had a taste of India on Wednesday. They didn’t go out for lunch, but instead visited a Hindu temple in Tigard.

Author: David Briggs

Source: The Washington Post/ Association of Religion Data Archives

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/study-rising-religious-ti_b_811665.html

One of the last great efforts at state-sponsored atheism is a failure.

And not just any kind of failure. China has enforced its anti-religion policy through decades of repression, coercion and persecution, but the lack of success...

Author: Hank Beckman

Source: The Wheaton Patch

http://wheaton.patch.com/articles/wheaton-college-promotes-religious-pluralism-2

In a time of economic uncertainty, frayed nerves and harsh public discourse, Wheaton College seeks understanding between two of the world’s great religions.

“We are in great need of wisdom on how to live in a world of religious pluralism,” Vincent Bacote,...

Author: Jean Cowden Moore

Source: The Ventura County Star

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/jan/21/sikh-professor-teaches-religion-at-clu/

Rahuldeep Singh Gill tends to stand out at California Lutheran University, where he is the only religion professor who is not Christian.

Gill is a Sikh, a popular religion in the Punjab state of India, where he was born. And he wears a dastar, or turban, setting him...

Author: Greg Garrison

Source: The Pew Forum on Religion...