Author: Yonat Shimron

Source: News Observer

http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/religion/story/1110613.html

In a sign of the changing makeup of its students, Duke University has hired its first imam, or Muslim religious leader, becoming one of only a handful of universities in the United States that have full-time Muslim clergy.

Abdullah Antepli, a native of Turkey who is completing his doctoral work at Hartford Seminary...

Author: Jamie Duffy

Source: The Star-Ledger

http://www.nj.com/helpinghands/jamieduffy/index.ssf/2008/06/interfaith_dialog_center_award.html

To strains of Middle Eastern melody and percussion, 200 guests sat down to yellow lentil soup and hummus at the Interfaith Dialog Center's first ever awards ceremony June 8 at the Hilton Hotel in Hasbrouck Heights.

The Center created in 2003 by Turkish-...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061303284_pf.html

For the first time in five Sundays of gatherings, the small group of Washington area Muslims and Jews around the fireside table seemed like it was about to move from polite chat on religious history to something unavoidably combustible: Zionism.

An imam had taken out a...

Author: George Conger

Source: Religious Intelligence

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=2155

RELIGION will continue to play an important part as an agent for progressive social change in the “post-modern, model state,” the British Minister for Europe Jim Murphy told a Foreign Office seminar on ‘Faith in Europe’ last week.

“We need to acknowledge the communitarian vigour of religious life,...

Author: Murray Campbell

Source: The Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mpps-keep-christian-prayer-add-new-ones/article17987484/...

Author: Yonat Shimron

Source: The News...

Author: Kuala Lumpur and Sharm El-Sheikh

Source: The Economist

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11543233

Debates about Islam and the West can throw up unexpected tensions. Take the American and the Brit, successful young professionals who met recently at a seaside resort in Egypt. As it happens, both were devout Muslims who pray five times a day. But as they discovered, manifest piety,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Associated Press/Beliefnet

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2008/06/religious-groups-protest-us-to

About 300 houses of worship are displaying anti-torture banners this month in an...

Author: Rich Heldenfels

Source: Akron Beacon Journal

http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/19706084.html

The place of religious faith in Alcoholics Anonymous gets extensive consideration in the documentary God As We Understand Him: A Film About Faith and the 12 Step Movement.

Airing at 10 tonight on WNEO/WEAO (Channels 45/49), the hourlong production comes from the Akron-based husband-and-wife team of Joshua Gippin and Shane Wynn, who began work on...

Author: Eboo Patel

Source: The Washington Post

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2008/06/god_and_man_at_dartmouth.html

I chuckled to myself wondering what William F. Buckley, the author of the landmark conservative tract God and Man at Yale, might have thought of this year’s Baccalaureate Service at Dartmouth College. In addition to Christian hymns and Bible readings, there was a Native...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Episcopal Life

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97713_ENG_HTM.htm

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, June 9 hosted religious leaders of different faiths to discuss the power of multi-religious cooperation to combat poverty and achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Williams is a co-president of Religions for Peace, the largest multi-religious coalition.

"Mobilizing the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Coventry Telegraph

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/north-warwickshire-news/2008/06/06/walk-of-faith-unites-religions-in-nuneaton-92746-21033828/

A WALK of faith will unite Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims in Nuneaton on Saturday.

The walk, with an emphasis on peace, is being organised by Nuneaton's Baha'i community, who...

Author: Jamel Arfaoui

Source: Magharebia

http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/reportage/2008/06/06/reportage-01

Eliza Wazzen was playing in the middle of the school yard with her cousin Gael and friend Ahlam Chehibi when scores of visitors appeared. The children didn't understand anything about what was going on around them or why all these strangers were taking pictures. For Eliza...

Author: Caryle Murphy

Source: Religion News Service/The Pew Forum

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=15791

Hundreds of Muslim leaders from around the world have endorsed Saudi King Abdullah's recent call for intensified interfaith dialogue in order to dampen global conflict and demonstrate Islam's commitment to solving world problems.

The declaration came on Friday (June 6) at the close of a three-day conference in Islam's holy city...

Author: Judy H. Fitzpatrick and Hazel Durand

Source: The Daily Herald

http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/l010/faith010.html

St. Maarten may be only sixteen square miles, but its varied facilities, natural Caribbean setting, strategic location and cultural and religious diversity make it a prime candidate for faith tourism, a multibillion-dollar industry beckoning to be exploited.

With the pressure to find new niche markets to...