Author: Staff Writer

Source: Staten Island Advance

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/island_hindu_community_steps_u.html

In a gesture of interfaith and international compassion, Staten Island's Hindu community has come together to bring some measure of relief to victims of the Pakistani floods.

Several dozen boxes of supplies were sent to the region yesterday, in a gesture, members of the community...

Author: Frank Thomas

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/11/01/rally-tries-to-build-bridges.html

They marched in silence, more than 150 of them.

Some were white; others, black. Some were Christian, and others were Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, agnostic or atheist.

They marched in yesterday's Rally for Inclusion...

Author: Perla Trevizo

Source: The Chattanooga Times Free Press

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/oct/31/souths-religious-diversity-growing/?local

Opposition to school-organized prayers before football games.

A ban on Bible-verse high school banners.

Resistance to a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

All these recent incidents are just signs...

Author: Jim Robbins

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/us/01monks.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

On a rural American Indian reservation here, amid grazing horses and cattle, a Buddhist lama from the other side of the world is nearing completion of a $1.6 million meditative garden that he hopes will draw spiritual pilgrims.

“There is something pure and powerful about this landscape,...

Author: Aron Heller

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/31/AR2010103101249.html

When Hillary Rubin immigrated from the U.S. to Israel, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and descendant of a famed Zionist visionary felt that she had finally arrived in her true home.

But now that religious...

Author: Mitchell Landsberg

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Author: Paul R. Kopenkoskey

Source: The Huffington Post

Wire Service: RNS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/29/american-indian-and-christian_n_775645.html

Smoke wafts upward as the Rev. Mike Peters blows on the Knick-Knick, a sacred herbal blend of spearmint leaves, red willow bark, sage, sweet grass and bayberry bush.

"As the smoke goes up, the Creator's...

Author: Ghassan Rubeiz

Source: The Daily Star

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=120826#axzz13ZFLKlsM

Mutual distrust leads many Palestinians and Israelis to think of peace as a mirage. Since religion plays a significant role in justifying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, politicians need the help of religious leaders in their search for a solution.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: ZeeNews.com

http://www.zeenews.com/news664153.html

Russian authorities have allocated land for the construction of a Krishna temple in the northern suburb of the capital amid strong demands for it by the Hindu community for many years.

Author: Aaron Claverie

Source: The Californian

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/temecula/article_8a46c558-d70d-5425-b660-f8ab6c793889.html

Members of the local Interfaith Council, men and women of different colors and creeds, offered their support for the construction of a mosque in Temecula during a lecture Tuesday night at the city's recreation center.

"I believe it will be a blessing," said Larry...

Author: John L. Esposito and Sheila B. Lalwani

Source: Middle East Online

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=42151

News that President Obama may skip a visit to the Golden Temple, the holy shrine to millions of Sikhs on his upcoming trip to India, is a sign of the confused times in which we find ourselves.

Part of the requirement for entering the Golden Temple - a sprawling and serene complex of polished marble that...

Author: Nancy Puffer

Source: The Republic

http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2010/10/22/20101022southeast-valley-paganism-on-rise.html

Advocates of paganism say it is on the rise in the "Southeast Valley, mirroring a nationwide trend of growth in nature-based religions. Many local followers have been celebrating their beliefs and seeking the same acceptance and respect as...

Author: Kirk Semple

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/nyregion/23mosques.html?ref=religion_and_belief

Brother Abdullah was working the sidewalk outside the Omar Ben Abdel-Aziz Mosque in Jamaica, Queens, on Friday, looking for the curious, fearful, idle and confused.

It was an hour into a two-hour open house intended to dispel ignorance and promote neighborliness and...

Author: Edward Rothstein

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/arts/design/23faiths.html?_r=2&ref=religion_and_belief

The sweep of the new exhibition at the New York Public Library — “Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam” — is stunning. It stretches from a Bible found in a monastery in coastal Brittany that was sacked by the Vikings in the year 917, to a 1904...

Author: Kate Shellnut

Source: Houston Belief

http://blogs.chron.com/spiritedchat/2010/10/mayor_parker_says_houstons_div.html

Mayor Annise Parker is encouraging Houstonians to participate in a citywide dinner dialog program about faith as a way to help the city's diverse religious groups work better with each other.