The Shabab militant group widens its reach beyond Somalia, taking responsibility for two bombings in Uganda that killed 76 people The streets of Mogadishu echo with the footsteps of Shabab fighters, the rattle of their rifles and their recitations of a medieval version of Islamic law that espouses public beheadings and the stoning of adulterers.
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Somalia’s Shabab fighters go international with Uganda blasts
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan spoke Tuesday about the challenges facing the war-torn country as it prepares for a referendum that likely will result in the secession of [heavily Christian] South Sudan from the Arab-dominated north. “We have less than six months until the referendum,” Scott Gration said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
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South will likely secede
Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy: Spirituality in Daily Life, Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron A kind heart is one of the principal things we are trying to develop. If we run around childishly telling others, “I’m this religion, and you’re that religion.
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Chocolate Frosting and Garbage, Thubten Chodron Buddhist quote
A SCHOOL that fought a legal battle to force a Sikh pupil to remove a religious bracelet spent at least £170,000 on the lost case, it emerged last night. Sarika Watkins-Singh, then 14, was suspended from Aberdare Girls’ School in 2007 after insisting she should be allowed to wear a silver Kara bangle, one of the five symbols of Sikh identity. The school argued she could not wear the bracelet because it contravened a ban on jewellery, but the High Court ruled in the pupil’s favour.
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School spent at least £170,000 on failed bid to ban Sikh bangle
I recently enjoyed reading The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. In the book they suggest that the role of the pastor has shifted from religious service provider to CEO in many churches. But they also suggest there needs to be a further shift, to trainer (i.e.
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We welcome the following guest post from Samira Mehta, a graduate student in American Religious Cultures at Emory University who is writing a dissertation on Christian/Jewish interfaith families in the U.S.
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Nikki Haley and the Construction of South Asian Identity
A Victoria-based Sikh association on Tuesday received a grant of 10,000 dollars from the Australian state’s Labour government as part of a programme to strengthen multi-cultural communities through inter-faith dialogue and collaboration. James Merlino, Minister assisting Premier John Brumby on Multicultural Affairs, and Member for Burwood, Bob Stensholt, presented the Victorian Sikh Association with the grant. “Victoria is the most multi-cultural, harmonious state in Australia and rivals any of the multicultural centres of the world,” Merlino said
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Sikh Association gets 10000-dollar grant from Victoria govt in Oz
Matthew 11: 25-27 Isa 10:5-7,13b-16 / Psa 94 I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. (Matthew 11:25) Do not crave for worldly wisdom, Nor in its glory be fulfilled; Seek rather to know God’s kingdom, And
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NEW DELHI: A woman, who lost five of her family members in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today claimed before a Delhi court trying Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others that she did not go to the police station after the incident as policemen were among the rioters. “I did not want to go the police station because the police officials were among the rioters,” Jagdish Kaur told Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta.
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Policemen were among anti-Sikh rioters in 1984: Witness
In its 2010 National Security Strategy, the Obama administration sought to sever the relationship between Islam and terrorism, rejecting the use of terms like ‘Islamic terrorist’ and ‘jihad’ to describe acts of terror. The linguistic change was a policy shift from the Bush administration and part of Obama’s overall strategy to reinvent America’s relationship with the Muslim world
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