Author: Kim Lawton

Source: PBS/Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/january-14-2011/martin-luther-king-and-robert-graetz/7884/

KIM LAWTON, correspondent: Although the social revolution led by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. grew out of the black church, from even the earliest days of the movement there were white foot soldiers, too. King initially...

Author: Tim Townsend

Source: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/article_19c66ee6-82b8-59f7-b3d5-fd3cc05bc538.html

In the military, the chaplain serves as both a religious leader and a listener - ideally one who can assist military personnel of all faiths. A frequent refrain among chaplains is "chaplain to all, pastor to some."

But...

Author: Farnaz Fassihi and Matt Bradley

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730704576066033828042322.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of Christians in the two weeks since Christmas, the latest challenge to the Mideast's small but vibrant Christian communities.

The arrests around the country appear focused...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12128728

Most of the world's Orthodox Christian Churches are celebrating Christmas, in line with the Julian calendar.

Author: Yasmine El-Rashidi

Source: Ahram Online

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/95/3365/Egypt/Attack-on-Egypt-Copts/Egypts-Muslims-attend-Christian-Coptic-mass,-servi.aspx

Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had a been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NPR

Wire Service: AP

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/04/132665050/cross-in-calif-public-park-found-unconstitutional

A war memorial cross in a San Diego public park is unconstitutional because it conveys a message of government endorsement of religion, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a two-decade-old case.

Author: Jon Gambrell

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010300809.html

Multiple explosions rocked a central Nigerian city, another bomb killed at least four at an army barracks in the capital and a radical Muslim sect burned churches in the northeast.

The new violence over the past two...

Author: Sarah Dopson

Source: The Montgomery Village Patch

http://montgomeryvillage.patch.com/articles/church-pushes-for-tolerance-understanding-among-muslims-and-christians

With religious differences at the root of so many worldly conflicts, members of Christ the Servant Lutheran Church are promoting tolerance at home and trying to bridge the gap in interfaith understanding.

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Author: Mike Anton

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Author: Judy Harrison

Source: The Bangor Daily News

http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/bdn/Bangor-churches-look-to-the-East-teach-courses-such-as-tai-chi,162933

Once a week a small group of men and women gathers in the parlor of the Hammond Street Congregational Church for group meditation.

A block away at Grace United Methodist Church on Union Street, a retired...

Author: Rusmir Smajilhodzic

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jsqnzfb7-2ahhwsYdeTNOe4TjYAw?docId=CNG.39d3ab61dbafa983bc1b74cae2bf9941.171

Defying an icy downpour, an imam and a Catholic priest made their way up the Majevica mountain in northeastern Bosnia to meet two Orthodox priests whose...

Author: Rachel Donadio

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/europe/02pope.html?ref=religionandbelief

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday announced that he would hold an interfaith meeting in Assisi, Italy, this October to mark the 25th anniversary of a watershed meeting held there by his predecessor, John Paul II.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: University of the Incarnate Word Alumni Association

Author: Cara Anna

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/25/AR2010122500060.html

China's officially atheist government wants to build a Christian church in the hometown of Confucius to help foster a relationship between an ancient philosophy and the country's fastest-growing religion. But suddenly, it's not going so...

Author: Nida Najar

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/nyregion/25metjournal.html?_r=1&ref=religionandbelief

Olga Komenko’s girlhood memories live within the walls of the domed and cupolaed Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity at Pennsylvania and Glenmore Avenues in East New York. There, she danced Thursday evenings away with other young parishioners at weekly socials, wrote letters...