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Muslim Coalition to Hold Briefing on Obama Trip, Civil Liberties Concerns (Popularity:  )
http://haber.turk.net
On Monday, April 6, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, will hold a noon news briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to discuss President Obama's visit to Turkey and how that visit relates to issues such as:* the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S.,* deteriorating relations between the FBI and American Muslims,* the dissemination of inaccurate ...
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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: Attack on Penn. Muslim Business Probed as Hate Crime (Popularity: )
http://www.cair.com
A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group reported today that anti-Iranian graffiti was scrawled inside a Philadelphia store ransacked by vandals earlier this week.According to the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the vandals also overturned counters, broke glass windows and doors and scattered food and other items around the store, which is owned by Muslim Palestinian-Americans.Local and national law enforcement authorities are reportedly investigating the incident as ...
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91st Catholic Health Assembly to Explore New Strategies to Expand and Enhance Services for Persons in Need (Popularity: )
http://www.chausa.org/
Catholic health ministry leaders from across the nation are gathering in Orlando for the 91st Catholic Health Assembly, June 4-6. The assembly is the largest annual gathering of Catholic health care leaders. Guided by the theme "Always With Us: Living Our Commitment to Persons In Need," the more than 1,000 participants will explore Catholic Church's preferential option for persons most in need. They will teach and learn from one another ...
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Availability of Guns Doesn't Explain Why so Many Individuals Use Them Today to Kill Random Strangers, Says MIM President Bob Peters (Popularity: )
http://www.moralityinmedia.org
Following the mass murder at the Omaha, Nebraska mall in December, Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media, wrote a 3,000 word article, entitled, "Mass Murder by Individuals and the Role of Guns, Religion, and Popular Culture," which is published at the http://www.moralityinmedia.org website, on the Miscellaneous Issues page. In that article he commented: "Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in North Central Illinois farm country, I often felt ...
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CAIR: Calif. Muslim Denied Service at Bank over Hijab (Popularity: )
http://www.cair.com
A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether a California bank violated a Muslim woman's civil rights when it denied her service because she was wearing a religiously-mandated head scarf, or hijab.According to the woman, she was denied service Saturday at a Navy Federal Credit Union in San Diego, Calif., despite telling bank officials that she wears her ...
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Letter to the President From the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, USA (Popularity: )
http://www.thepersecution.org
President Barack ObamaThe White HouseWashington D.C.Dear President Obama:Your inauguration signaled the dawn of a new day of hope for America and the world. Your own words "we seek a new way forward based on mutual interest and mutual respect" encapsulate the new direction forward for America.We, the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, USA, congratulate you on your election to the highest office in the land and pledge to stand beside you, ...
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National Coalition of Pastors' Spouses Call for Routine HIV Testing (Popularity: )
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In observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10, 2007, Vivian Berryhill, president of the National Coalition of Pastors' Spouses, today issued the following statement urging women of all ages to be routinely tested for HIV: "As we observe National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, it is my hope that we become better educated on how HIV/AIDS is affecting women across this country. More and ...
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Florida Businessman Says Deaths of Colleagues Led to 'Economic Meltdown' Study Group (Popularity: )
http://survivethemeltdown.org
A Central Florida entrepreneur -- who says financial problems caused four of his colleagues to take their own lives in the last 15 months -- has started a local study group to help businessmen grow both personally and spiritually during America's economic meltdown.John Crossman, president of Crossman & Company, one of Central Florida's largest retail leasing and management firms, was already leading a men's Bible study when he made the ...
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TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall Greets Bohra Muslim Community in Visit to Mosque (Popularity: )
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall (TRH) visited Husaini Masjid, the mosque for the Dawoodi Bohra Muslims, in Northholt on Wednesday morning. They met with Prince Qaidjoher Ezzuddin, son of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, spiritual leader of Dawoodi Bohra Muslims worldwide.TRH saw an exhibition covering aspects of the community's contribution to British life, particularly in medicine and business, and also their philanthropic work world-wide, including ...
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