Interfaith

Florida Faith in Action Network

This data was last updated on 15 October 2020.

Address: 406 East Amelia Street, Orlando, Florida 32803, USA
Phone: 407-849-5031
Email: rthomas@faithinflorida.org
Mission: Faith in Florida builds a powerful multicultural nonpartisan network of congregation community organizations in Florida to address systemic racial and economic issues that cause poverty for local families.

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Women Can Help Unite Us

March 8, 2007

Source: Lancashire Telegraph

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1245734

WOMEN from every faith can lead the way in the fight to unite the communities of East Lancashire.

But women of different cultures should make an effort to learn English.

That was the message from religious and community leaders in Blackburn who gathered at Blackburn Cathedral to take part in a debate entitled "Women and Faith." The event was...

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Religion, Textbook Dispute Rekindled

March 8, 2007

Author: Laurel Rosenhall

Source: Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/134412.html

A picture of the founder of the Sikh religion in a seventh-grade textbook has reignited what's become a common dilemma for California's education establishment: How much influence should contemporary religious groups have in crafting history lessons for the state's 6.3 million public school students?

The state Board of Education is scheduled to vote today on...

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Our Muslim Neighbors

March 8, 2007

Author: TERI MADDOX

Source: Belleville News-Democrat

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/16857523.htm

You've never heard of prejudice based on first names? That's because your name isn't Mohammed.

After 9/11, Belleville psychotherapist Mohammed Kibria noticed people began treating him as "stupid" or "dangerous" or both. He faced intense security checks at airports and eventually was asked to leave his job at a mental-...

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Cross Returns to Chapel -- But Not on the Altar

March 7, 2007

Author: Fredrick Kunkle

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601456.html

The College of William and Mary's president and board agreed yesterday to restore the altar cross to permanent display in historic Wren Chapel to quell a controversy that began with its removal in the fall.

Under a compromise recommended by a committee of students, alumni...

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Muslim, Christian and Jewish Students Travel to Turkey for Spring Break

March 7, 2007

Source: Newswise

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/527926/

Newswise — A diverse group of Syracuse University students from different faith traditions will spend their Spring Break in a unique way, by traveling to Turkey to study how Muslim, Christian and Jewish peoples have co-existed in the region throughout history and continue to today.

The group of 18 students will chronicle their experience through written journal entries, audio clips and photographs posted...

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"Learn About Other Faiths? Yes. Mandatory? NO!," a Commentary by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

March 7, 2007

Author: Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Source: The Washington Post

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/susan_brooks_thistlethwaite/2007/03/learn_about_other_faiths_yes_m.html

For many people, religion is not just another academic subject like literature or math.

Religion is also a system of belief, a faith. To the adherents of a particular faith, the tenets of their...

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A Civil Confrontation Greets Visiting Imams

March 7, 2007

Author: Charles A. Radin

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/07/a_civil_confrontation_greets_visiting_imams/

SHARON -- It was the critical moment in an unprecedented encounter between Muslim leaders from the Middle East and the religiously diverse residents of this small suburb south of Boston.

After the introductions, Fred Calm, a middle-aged man wearing...

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Museum of Tolerance to be Built on Top of Muslim Cemetery

March 7, 2007

Author: Abdussalam Mohamed

Source: Southern California In Focus

http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/4012/135/

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has raised at least $200 millions, mainly from American donors, to build a Museum of Tolerance on the Ma’am Allah cemetery, a site believed to contain the remains of dozens of companions of Prophet Muhammad as well as thousands of Jerusalemite Muslims.

On May 3,...

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A Pious Doctrine, but Untouchable

March 7, 2007

Author: Vasundhara Sanger

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/A_pious_doctrine_but_untouchable/articleshow/1733642.cms

MUMBAI: March 8 is here, and so is the euphoria associated with the International Women's Day. Amidst talks of the celebration of womanhood, an issue that has reached a stalemate in India is the implementation of a uniform civil code for its citizens.

Sixty...

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Fiji is Home to Living Religion: Mataca

March 7, 2007

Source: The Fiji Times

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=58318

WHILE there is religious tolerance in Fiji, some church leaders condemn and look down on non-Christian religions, says the head of the Catholic Church Archbishop Petero Mataca.

He made the comment at the launch of Guidelines for Religious Tolerance pamphlet in Suva.

"I think there's religious tolerance in society but some leaders do not have that understanding," Archbishop Mataca said.
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