Source: CNW Group

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2007/30/c2779.html

SURREY, BC, Jan. 30 /CNW/ - Terry Mahoney, General Manager of Rogers OMNI Television British Columbia, is pleased to welcome the station's first board of Multi-faith Community Advisors. Like the system of Community Advisors put in place 20 years ago by multilingual/multicultural stations Rogers OMNI.1 and OMNI.2, the new advisory board for Rogers OMNI.10/BC will play an...

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/210/story_21070_1.html

JERUSALEM, Jan. 29 - Israel on Monday installed the first Muslim Cabinet minister in its 58-year history Monday, with parliament approving his appointment by a wide margin.

Raleb Majadele's appointment to the Cabinet, which the government billed as a step toward equality for Muslim Arabs, Israel's largest minority, passed by a vote of 59 to 23....

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6280311.stm

British Airways is changing its uniform policy to allow all religious symbols, including crosses, to be worn openly.

BA announced a review last year after a row erupted when Heathrow check-in worker Nadia Eweida challenged a ban on her visibly wearing a cross necklace.

The airline now says it will allow religious symbols such as lapel pins and "some flexibility for individuals to wear a symbol of...

Source: Catholic Online

http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=22843

WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) – A delegation of Catholic, other Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders is scheduled to meet Jan 29 with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to urge increased Bush administration engagement in working toward achieving long-term peace in the Middle East.

The State Department meeting follows up with a December call by 35...

Author: Shari Rabin

Source: The Daily Free Press

Author: Natasha Altamirano

Source: The Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20070129-123012-2388r.htm

WILLIAMSBURG -- The simple altar at the College of William...

Author: Dene Moore

Source: The Chronicle Herald

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/554362.html

MONTREAL — Men banned from pre-natal classes at a Montreal community health centre so as not to offend Muslim, Sikh or Hindu women.

The windows at a community gym obscured so that boys at the Orthodox synagogue across the street couldn’t see the Spandex-clad women inside.

Most recently, a suggestion that it’s time to...

Author: Jennifer Lewington

Source: The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070122.IMMIG22/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

As more and more visible-minority students step through the doors of Toronto-area schools, education officials brag about their warm welcome: websites in multiple languages, special English classes and adjustments for religious practices.

But among many...

Source: Today Online

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/168608.asp

IN multi-ethnic Singapore, all sorts of misconceptions can arise, as some young citizens found out.

Undergraduate Farhana Munshi used to think that when Christians befriended people from other religions, their sole purpose was to convert them. The 19-year-old realised she was mistaken after speaking to a Catholic priest from the Church of Saint Mary of the Angels.

"He told me that only a small...

Source: The Star

Author: Anna Sudar

Source: The Post Online

http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/articles/2007/01/29/features/17258.html

Bethany Fulton wanted to be a writer. She never thought she would become a Presbyterian pastor.

After graduating from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pa., with a bachelor of arts in English communication and media technology, Fulton said she had her life all planned out: “Poet laureate of the U.S. by 25....

Source: Brandon Sun Online/Canadian Press

http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=40994

MONTREAL (CP) - A Montreal city police faces disciplinary action over a controversial song about accommodating minorities.

The title of the French-language song means "That's Enough Already."

It says Quebec culture is being spit on and suggests those who don't like the way things are should head to the airport.

"Reasonable accommodation, we're no longer...

Author: Lisa Bolivar

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/cities_neighborhoods/pembroke_pines/16548547.htm

World Religion Day at the Southwest Regional Library in Pembroke Pines was a mosaic of faces in a packed auditorium.

About a dozen faiths and nine languages were represented...