Author: Staff Writer

Source: East London Advertiser

Author: Barney Zwartz

Source: The Age

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/interfaith-chair-at-catholic-uni-a-world-first/2007/11/06/1194329223184.html

THE Australian Catholic University will launch the world's first chair in Muslim-Catholic relations in Melbourne this month as part of a bid to combat extremism.

The chair, funded by donations from the Turkish community, will...

Author: Sameen Tahir-Khan

Source: Arab News

http://arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=103284&d=7&m=11&y=2007&pix=world.jpg&category=World

COLUMBUS, Ohio, 7 November 2007 — The Interfaith Association of Central Ohio held a public forum on the “Many faces of Islam” at the Ohio State House. A large number of people from different religions attended. Four panelists shared their...

Author: Debbie Lehmann and Scott Lowenstein

Source: Brown Daily Herald

http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/11/06/CampusNews/Keeping.The.Faith.At.Brown-3080978.shtml

When University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson learned that this year's Brown-Harvard football game - the first night game in Harvard Stadium's history - was scheduled to take...

Author: Sally Kalson

Source: Post-Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07310/831372-51.stm

On a Sunday afternoon in late September, an unusual group of people got together in a Point Breeze house. Half of them were Muslims, who, in the midst of Ramadan, talked about their beliefs and practices around the holy period. The other half were Jews, who talked about the meaning and rituals of the recently completed holy days, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7080327.stm

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican - the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch.

The Vatican described the private meeting as "warm" and said the two men discussed the presence and hard work of Christians in Saudi Arabia.

An estimated 1.5m Christians live in Saudi Arabia but are...

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/F85E04B97485DAB38725738B0049FBE0

On a balmy night in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 25th, over 300 people gathered together under an outdoor pavilion to participate in the 3rd Annual Experience Interfaith event. Participants removed their shoes before entering and sat down in the langar lines set out in rows in the pavilion space. The evening began with an introduction...

Author: Peter Smith

Source: The Courier-Journal

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071106/NEWS01/711060443/1008/NEWS01

The University of Louisville is playing host to 14 Asian Muslim scholars and activists on a three-week trip designed to launch projects that will build bridges between the United States and predominantly Muslim nations.

The program, "Religion and Society:...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: EarthTimes

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/136619.html

The Vatican Monday urged religious tolerance in a greeting for the Hindu festival of Diwali which many of the estimated one billion followers of the world's oldest religion will celebrate on November 9. The message titled "Christians and Hindus: Determined to Walk the Path of Dialogue", was signed by the head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious...

Author: Liana Grey

Source: Washington Square News

http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/11/05/News/Free-Food.With.A.Side.Of.Sikh-3077827.shtml

Hundreds of students filed into the Kimmel Center on Thursday, took off their shoes and sat in rows on long, white sheets. There, they enjoyed vegetarian food and learned about the Sikh religion.

About 360...

Author: ALISSA J. RUBIN

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/world/middleeast/05cardinal.html

There is neither a cross nor a sign on the heavy metal gate to indicate that this is the official residence of one of the country’s most prominent Christians, the first in Iraq in modern times to be elevated to cardinal by the Roman Catholic Church.

The simple structure, in a dilapidated neighborhood of...

Author: Rebecca Trounson

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs3nov03,1,2174242.story?track=rss

It grew out of the 1992 riots, a vision by a small group of Muslim medical students to bring charitable, high-quality healthcare to the needy residents of South Los Angeles.

Eleven years later, the UMMA clinic on Florence Avenue has served nearly 20,000 patients, the great majority of...

Author: K. Connie Kang

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/faith/11/03/1103beliefs.html

LOS ANGELES — Speaking with mutual respect and sensitivity, prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars and clergy from across the country met in Los Angeles last month to "wrestle" with what one rabbi described as the "dark side" of the three faith traditions.

Experts cited...

Author: HELEN T. GRAY

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/344000.html

In 2002 Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Pakistan. In memory and honor of his son, Judea Pearl, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, started a dialogue on reconciliation with an Islamic scholar, Akbar Ahmed.

The dialogue has continued for four years in 15-20 settings,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22687268-16947,00.html

KHALID Khreis is an optimist. Sort of. The Jordanian artist and museum director is confidently talking up the power of art to transcend borders, promote understanding between cultures and allow potential enemies to see each other as dignified fellow humans worthy of respect, even admiration. Is he optimistic, then...