A press release from the Department of Homeland Security reports that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano met yesterday with leaders from Muslim, Sikh, South Asian and Arab communities. The meeting focused on ways that DHS can increase engagement, dialogue and coordination with, and enhance information sharing between, the Department and faith- and community-based groups.
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DHS Secretary Meets With Faith and Ethnic Leaders
This is a case where I know, in a few days, GetReligion readers are going to send me URLs for this Orthodox story when the mainstream media in America get around to covering it. Thus, I think I’ll go ahead and try to get ahead of the curve
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Who will quote the Moscow patriarch?
(Jan 28, 2010) – Whether it’s to offer support or to ask questions about the Muslim faith, the Muslim Association of Hamilton will welcome the public to an open house at the Hamilton Mosque this weekend.
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Learn about Islam at Muslim group’s open house (Hamilton Spectator)
In Britain today the House of Lords will debate a series of amendments proposed by Baroness Turner of Camden to limit the extent to which voluntary-aided faith schools can hire teachers on the basis of religion. ( Ekklesia , Accord Coalition )
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House of Lords Today Debates Religious Hiring By Faith Schools
Pig heads were found at two Malaysian mosques, the latest incident of desecration and vandalism following an inter-faith dispute over the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims.
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Pig Heads Thrown Into Malaysian Mosques After Church Attacks (BusinessWeek)
Which is more important — interfaith (sometimes called interreligious) dialogue or intercultural conversation? Interfaith dialogue focuses on understanding the differences in theological doctrines. Intercultural dialogue focuses more broadly on the ways those doctrines, once internalized, cause us to live in…
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Talking faith or culture? 1-27-10
The defense in the faith-healing trial in the June 2008 death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley began its case Monday with a medical expert witness who said the teen’s symptoms weren’t necessarily so bad that a reasonable person would think he could have died.
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Faith-healing defense introduces ‘silent killer’ concept
So far, nothing I have seen coming out of Haiti has changed my mind about how journalists should approach the basic “theodicy” story. I’ve said it several times already ( click here and then here ), I am really not that interested in what American religious broadcasters or even articulate American academics have to say about the role that God or the spirits did or didn’t play in causing the hellish earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. What matters to me are the voices of people in various faith groups — in Haiti.
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Haitian voices: God and the quake
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI decried Monday what he called “growing aversion” to the Christian faith in the world. The pontiff in his homily in a Rome basilica didn’t single out any geographic area, but his worry about the plight of the Christian minority in the Middle East will shape discussions Mideast bishops will hold later this year at a special meeting at the Vatican.
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Pope decries ‘aversion’ to Christians
A couple of years ago, Kenneth Copeland made a distinguished list – not the Lamb’s Book of Life, the final 12 on American Idol or even a follower on my Twitter account. No, after decades of proclaiming faith in that noted southern drawl, he bellowed his way on Sen.
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Kenneth Copeland: The government, the sheep, now the lost