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U.S. Muslims to Launch Major News Media Education Campaign (Popularity:  )
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On Tuesday, November 13, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a noon news conference in the nation's capital to announce the launch of a major initiative to help enhance understanding of Islam and Muslims in the news media. Similar news conferences will be held at CAIR offices in Princeton, N.J.; San Diego, Calif.; Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio; Tampa, Fla.; and Dallas, Texas. To contact a CAIR chapter, go ...
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U.S. Muslims to Offer Qurans to 100,000 American Leaders (Popularity: )
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On Tuesday, June 30, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a news conference in Washington, D.C., to announce the launch of a major campaign to distribute free copies of the Quran, Islam's revealed text, to 100,000 local, state and national leaders.WHAT: CAIR News Conference to Announce Launch of "Share the Quran" CampaignWHEN: Tuesday, June 30, 11 a.m.WHERE: CAIR National Headquarters, 453 New Jersey Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C.CONTACT: CAIR ...
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U.S. Sponsors Bangladesh Conference for Religious and Community Leaders on Advancing Development in Asia (Popularity: )
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is sponsoring a regional conference in Dhaka on "the role of religious and community leaders in advancing development in Asia," March 21-24, and 70 religious and community leaders from fourteen countries across Asia are expected to participate."USAID values the work that community and religious leaders are doing on the ground every day to create tangible improvements in people's lives," says USAID's Acting Senior ...
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USCCB Official Criticizes Rescinding of Mexico City Policy, AIDS Prevention Funding (Popularity: )
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Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives defeated an amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill authored by Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) to preserve the Mexico City Policy. This policy specifies that federal funds for family planning are not available to non-governmental organizations that perform and promote abortion as a method of family planning in other countries. Deirdre A. McQuade, Director of Planning and Information for the ...
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VA Rep Asked to Apologize for Anti-Muslim Remarks (Popularity: )
http://www.cair-net.org
The Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) tonight called on Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) to apologize for anti-Muslim remarks he made in a recent letter to a constituent. Goode's letter to the head of the local Sierra Club chapter slammed the planned use of a Quran for the ceremonial swearing-in of Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. (No religious texts of any kind are used for the official ...
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VIDEO from Medialink and Thomas Nelson Publishers: Is the Holy Book the New Textbook? (Popularity: )
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The Bible is the most influential book ever written, according to TIME Magazine. It is the best-selling book of all time, and also the best-selling book of the year, every year. But despite the importance of it in historical and cultural influences on the U.S., many Americans are biblically illiterate. Works from William Shakespeare to Charles Dickens and speeches from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. were all influenced ...
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Vivian G. Prins Foundation Awards the Center for Jewish History $225,000 Grant to Support Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars (Popularity: )
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The Center for Jewish History, the largest repository of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel, has received a $225,000 grant from the Vivian G. Prins Foundation to support Post-Doctoral fellowships for Emigrating Scholars, who seek permanent teaching and research positions in North America."The Center continues to function as a professional resource for scholars," says Bruce Slovin, CJH Board Chair. "It provides avenues in which they can present new research ...
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What a Difference a Shawl Makes (Popularity: )
http://www.hcdi.net
A new national study of more than 600 Americans revealed that a woman wearing a shawl or hijab, typically worn by Muslim women, is viewed significantly different than the same woman without the traditional headwear. The study was conducted by HCD Research, using its mediacurves.com web site during January 2-3, to determine whether Americans possess different views of a woman based on whether or not she wears traditional Muslim headwear. ...
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World Congress Controversy: Cardinal Schonborn Defuses Concern Over Orthodox Bishop's Remarks (Popularity: )
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On Day 4 (Saturday, April 5) of the World Mercy Congress at St. John Lateran Basilica here, Congress President Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Austria dealt with a controversy stemming from yesterday's plenary sessions, according to a story by Dan Valenti. The controversy deals with a presentation made on Friday (April 4) by Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyed of Austria. Valenti, who broke the story, is covering the Congress here for ...
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World Jewish Congress and Conference of European Rabbis Call on Heads of Greek Orthodox Church to Publicly Repudiate Anti-Semitic Statements Made by Church Officials (Popularity: )
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The World Jewish Congress and the Conference of European Rabbis today issued the following joint statement calling on the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos II, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to condemn vitriolic, anti-Semitic public statements recently made by Metropolitan of Piraeus Seraphim and Metropolitan Anthimos of Salonika. The Metropolitan Seraphim, one of the Greek Orthodox Churches highest officials, appeared on a morning show on Greek ...
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