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Fair Witness Issues Statement on Moral Proportion and the Role of Churches in the Israel-Gaza War (Popularity:  )
Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East issues the following statement by Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton, the Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College in Annandale, New York:Why would the State of Israel attack Gaza by air, and threaten invasion on the ground? After all, the target of operations has been the territory that Israel withdrew its forces from under Ariel Sharon, dismantling and destroying Israeli settlements ...
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New Book Provides Introduction to the Qur'an for Non-Muslims (Popularity: )
http://www.moravianseminary.edu
Walter H. Wagner, adjunct professor at Moravian Theological Seminary, recently authored "Opening the Qur'an: Introducing Islam's Holy Book" (University of Notre Dame Press). The book is described as a masterful work that offers a comprehensive and extraordinarily readable step-by-step introduction to the Qur'an, making it accessible to students, teachers, clergy, and general readers.Wagner's background provides him a great sensitivity toward the risks and opportunities for non-Muslims who attempt to interpret ...
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The Apogee Foundation Introduces Programs Fostering Collaboration Among the World's Great Spiritual Traditions (Popularity: )
http://apogeefoundation.org/media/2008/collaboration_spiritual_traditions.php
New York, London and Tokyo - The Apogee Foundation has announced that it is continuing the expansion of its international Synergy Programs with new Apogee Academy educational projects, Apogee Artists performance events, and Artists in Residence composition commissions fostering intercultural collaboration among musicians representing the world's great spiritual traditions.The Foundation's Synergy Programs are designed to provide gifted artists from diverse cultures opportunities for creative empowerment through the sharing of their ...
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The Balm In Gilead Joins Saddleback Church in Thanking President Bush for His Leadership on Addressing HIV and AIDS Around the World (Popularity: )
http://www.balmingilead.org
Pernessa Seele, Founder/CEO of The Balm In Gilead, joined Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, his wife, Kay and approximately 300 faith and community leaders at a Civic Forum on Global Health for a World AIDS Day ceremony recognizing President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush's leadership in addressing HIV around the globe.It was in his first State of the Union address that President Bush pledged to address ...
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Dallas-Based Buckner Unites With Dillon International to Expand Christian Children's Services (Popularity: )
http://www.buckner.org
Dallas-based Buckner Children and Family Services announced today it will affiliate with Dillon International, Inc., a multi-service, not-for-profit child placement agency specializing in international adoption services, based in Tulsa, Okla. The Buckner Board of Trustees approved the affiliation by a unanimous vote Nov. 21 following an earlier unanimous vote of the Dillon board. The affiliation is effective Jan. 1 and calls for existing Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services' international and ...
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CAIR Condemns Cross Burning on Lawn of NJ Obama Supporters (Popularity: )
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The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ) today condemned the burning of a cross on the lawn of supporters of President-elect Obama in that state. According to media reports, a Warren County family of Indian descent discovered the burned cross on their front lawn Thursday morning. The family's homemade cloth sign celebrating Obama's victory was draped over the fallen cross. SEE: Cross Burned on Lawn of ...
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American Islamic Congress Demands the Immediate Pardon and Release of Afghan Journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, Deplores Stoning Death of 'Adulterous' Somali Woman (Popularity: )
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The American Islamic Congress (AIC) today reiterated its call on the Afghan government to drop all charges against journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh. Notwithstanding the relief felt in that Kambakhsh's original death sentence, delivered last October, was overturned, AIC finds it unacceptable that this 24-year-old man now faces 20 years of imprisonment for "blasphemy". "No one should be punished for merely distributing materials, as Kambakhsh did with a document on women's ...
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Solution to Global Financial Crisis is in Quran says Worldwide Islamic Leader (Popularity: )
- Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Leads Prayers Following Historic Reception in Houses of Parliament A worldwide Islamic leader yesterday addressed MPs and ministers in the House of Commons with a faith-inspired solution to the global credit crisis. Before leading prayers in the seat of Parliament, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, voiced his fears to 40 MPs, Ministers, Peers as well as ambassadors of ...
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Letter to Defense Secretary Demands Firing of Two Who Defended Attackers of Jewish Soldier in Hate Crime (Popularity: )
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org
Two national anti-discrimination organizations joined together and sent a formal letter to the Secretary of Defense asking that two lay Jewish leaders in the U.S. Army be immediately fired for making excuses for the attackers of a Jewish soldier after the brutal beating left him hospitalized with serious injuries, although the full extent of his injuries are still being assessed by military medical personnel. One leader said the Jewish soldier ...
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Billy Graham Returns Home Following Hospital Observation (Popularity: )
Evangelist Billy Graham has returned to his mountain home in Montreat, N.C. upon his release this afternoon from Mission Hospital in nearby Asheville following a brief stay. He was admitted for observation after he tripped over one of his three dogs and fell late Friday. Mr. Graham's physicians said that he suffered no broken bones in the fall. They had offered him the choice of being released or remaining in ...
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