Ian Simpson, Reuters, May 07
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday decried Buddhist monks’ attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, saying killing in the name of religion was “unthinkable.”
The Dalai Lama, a foremost Buddhist leader, told an audience at the University of Maryland at the start of a U.S. tour that the root of [...]
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Muslims Find a Welcoming Home in Famously Catholic Ireland
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Megan O’Neil, “The Atlantic” in WorldWide Religious News, Apr. 18
A new 60,000-square-foot development is likely to generate friction in any urban setting, much less a mosque in the capital of a historically Catholic country.
And yet a proposal to construct a multi-use Islamic center — including a three-story domed mosque, school, and fitness facility — in [...]
Bucking French Tradition, City Sets Up a Kind of Holy Quarter
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Scott Sayare, New York Times, Apr.02
Set above a sweep of green farmland, the crumbling stone chapel at the center of this village met the spiritual requirements of its Roman Catholic residents for nearly four centuries. But Bussy Saint-Georges is no longer just a village.
It is now a “new city” of 25,000, a planned development of [...]
The hardline Buddhists targeting Sri Lanka’s Muslims
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Charles Haviland, BBC News, Mar.25
After a series of attacks on mosques, wild rumours about animal slaughter and an attempt to outlaw the halal system of classification, the BBC’s Charles Haviland investigates how Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority is being targeted by hardline Buddhists.
On a January morning a crowd of Buddhist monks storm a law college, yelling, [...]
In a Strasbourg mosque, the often-uneasy French mix with Muslim neighbors
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Edward Cody, Washington Post, Mar.07
One woman asked why Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, changes dates every year. Then came a question about how Muslims calculate that the world is entering the year 1434.
For Abdelrahman Binjalloun, a Moroccan-born pharmacist who doubles as a guide, the questions were routine. Since it was inaugurated in September after [...]
Canada’s new religious freedom ambassador says he’ll give a louder voice to homegrown values in a ‘noisy world’
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Joseph Brean, National Post, Feb.19
Andrew P. W. Bennett, Canada’s first ambassador of religious freedom, is a Christian academic studying toward a theology degree in Ottawa, an expert on Scottish devolution, and a government policy analyst with experience in the Privy Council, Export Development Canada and Natural Resources Canada.
With four staff and a $5-million annual budget, [...]
Muslims Demolish Church Building in Egypt
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Mary Abdelmassih (“Assyrian International News Agency”), WorldWide Religious News, Jan.16
Hundreds of Muslims came out of mosques today with hammers and destroyed a social services building belonging to the Coptic Church while chanting Islamic slogans. Security forces arrived after the building was completely razed. The 100 square meters social services building in the village of Fanous, [...]
A Guide to Finding (Interfaith) Spiritual Peace
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Susan Bloch, Huffington Post, Jan.10
It was midnight on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem’s Manger Square, when I, a Jewish woman, stood in front of the Church of the Nativity and brought myself to some spiritual peace that I could not have imagined.
My steaming breath glowed in the aura of the bright lights all around. Strains of [...]
Iraq’s Al-Sadr Visits Church, Site of 2010 Attack
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Adam Schreck, Worldwide Religious News, Jan.04
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr reached out to Iraq’s religious minorities Friday, visiting a Baghdad church desecrated in a deadly 2010 attack and a prominent Sunni mosque as public opposition spread against his rival, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The anti-U.S. cleric’s stops at the holy sites — a rare public appearance outside [...]
Muslim doctors run clinic for uninsured at St. Louis church
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Tim Townsend, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec.27
The Salam Free Clinic at a church in north St. Louis grew out of a Memorial Day barbecue and a desire to help.
In 2007, about 50 Muslims intent on serving their community and their country, hosted a barbecue at the Veterans Affairs hospital at Jefferson Barracks, dishing out chicken and [...]