Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Wayland Town Crier/Metrowest Daily News

http://www.wickedlocal.com/wayland/news/x398375288/News-briefs

In 1988, swastikas appeared on the bathroom walls at Weston High School. In response, the Weston PTO sponsored a workshop about discrimination and prejudice. Following the workshop, several attendees met to determine how to improve relationships among people of different faiths.

The result was...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: World Faith News

http://www.wfn.org/2008/10/msg00124.html

Christian communities should improve their knowledge of Islam, be good neighbours to Muslims and bear witness to their faith in an appropriate manner, according to an international group of church leaders and experts on Christian-Muslim dialogue.

These were some of the recommendations put forward at an 18 to 20 October consultation aimed at developing an ecumenical...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Today's Zaman

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Analyst

http://allafrica.com/stories/200810220870.html

The Ministry of Education is under pressure to put an end to the teaching of Bible in public schools across the country as evidence[d] by a call from a religious advocacy institution which has been praying for religious tolerance.

The group, Muslim and Christian United for Peace and Reconciliation in Liberia (MUCUL) says it has written the authorities of the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=syr&s=f&o=347250&apc_state=henh

A recent TV series has broken taboos by tackling the sensitive topic of Christian-Muslim relationships in Syria.

“Not a Mirage” was a mini-series shown during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which this year coincided with September. The drama, focusing on the secret marriage of a Muslim man and a...

Author: Lira Dalangin-Fernandez

Source: INQUIRER.net

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20081017-166967/House-OKs-ban-on-suspects-religious-tag

The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that seeks to make illegal for media to identify suspected criminals by their religion or ethnicity.

Principally authored by Representative Juan...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: AFP

http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/17/int15.htm

Russia’s justice ministry plans to “liquidate”56 religious organisations for failing to inform authorities of their activities, the daily Gazeta reported on Thursday.

“There is no community of the Russian Orthodox Church on the list,” the Russian newspaper noted in reference to the most dominant religion in the country.

Published on the...

Author: Phred Dvorak

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122411562348138619.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Mass firings at meatpacking plants in Colorado and Nebraska last month highlight growing conflicts over how to accommodate religion in the workplace.

The plants, owned by the U.S. unit of Brazil's JBS SA, collectively fired about 200 Muslim Somali workers who walked off the job over prayer...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Media for Freedom

http://www.mediaforfreedom.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=11803

Various religions and denominations came together in Nevada (USA) on Sunday to honor peace icon Mahatma Gandhi, pray for world peace, and celebrate human spiritual rights.

Organized jointly by Gandhi Monument Council and Advocates for Religious Rights...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081015/LIFESTYLE04/810150384/1409/METRO

A documentary film mailed to tens of thousands of households in Macomb and Oakland counties and distributed as advertising in local newspapers is being decried as bigotry by some Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders, who say it portrays radical Islam as a demonic force bent on...

Author: Sara Cesky

Source: The Greyhound

http://media.www.loyolagreyhound.com/media/storage/paper665/news/2008/10/14/News/Common.Text.Author.Speaks.On.Global.Interfaith.Movement-3484418.shtml

Loyola students and faculty members filled McGuire Hall Thursday night to listen to renowned author and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, Eboo Patel, speak on...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Press TV

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Peninsula

Author: Kyung M. Song

Source: The Seattle Times

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008259777_togetherbuild13m.html

Here's a remark rarely — if ever — overheard at a construction site:

"The Jewish experience was shaped by the Diaspora. ... "

The speaker was Phil Gerson, a retired Boeing employee who belongs to Bellevue's Temple B'nai Torah. Listening was Farhad Ahmed, a...

Author: Cynthia Hubert

Source: The Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/278/story/1307204.html

As much of the rest of the world roiled with tension, thousands of people marched the streets of Sacramento on Saturday in the name of peace and unity.

Downtown residents in jeans and sweat shirts peered from their balconies and porches as men in turbans and women in colorful saris made their way from Southside Park to the state Capitol.

The...