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Novel way to help find faith in library |
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A LIBRARY has come up with a novel idea they are offering the loan of a spiritual adviser.
For the next fortnight not only will you be able to borrow, books, CDs or DVDs from Mearns Library, you can also borrow' a member of East Renfrewshire Faith Forum.
This pilot project came about as a suggestion by the Scottish Interfaith Council who had heard of a similar project which was carried out in Australian libraries.
Representatives from the Sikh, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Muslim ... |
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Christians, Muslims pledge to seek common ground |
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A wide range of Christian theologians and leaders have endorsed a document calling for increased efforts to work with Muslims for peace and justice. The move responds to an earlier call from Muslim leaders seeking common ground.
The new document, “Loving God and Neighbor Together: A Christian Response to ‘A Common Word Between Us and You,’ ” was signed by almost 300 Christians and published as an advertisement Nov. 18 in The New York Times.
“Given the deep fissures in the relatio ... |
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Pope Benedict invites Muslim to meet with him at Vatican! |
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Pope Benedict XVI has responded to a letter from 138 Muslim scholars by inviting a group of them to meet with him and with the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. The papal response came in a letter to Jordan’s Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin
Talal, president of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Amman, which sponsored the Muslim scholars’ project. The letter, signed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, said the pope wanted “to expres ... |
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An illustrated ‘prayer book’ |
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LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - John Gattuso has edited books on everything from boxing to scuba diving, dinosaur digs to whale watching, and the Alaskan wilderness to New York City museums.
Yet his book "Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer"
The lushly colored 176-page coffee-table book looks as if it were developed by the spiritual arm of the National Geographic Society. But it's more than just a series of 100 images of the world's devout in the act of communicating with their ... |
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Univ. theologians promote religious dialogue |
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Published Monday, November 26, 2007
A week ago, four Yale Divinity School scholars and administrators issued an affirmative response from the Christian community to the Muslim community’s statement “A Common Word Between Us and You,” a call for a rehabilitated religious dialogue through the use of common principles.
On Nov. 18, Divinity School Dean and New Testament professor Harold Attridge and three Divinity School professors and administrators published a response in support ... |
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More public schools offering elective religion classes |
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MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A group of teenagers gathered in Ahwatukee Foothills on a recent Monday afternoon to discuss the Jewish faith. But they got a little hung up on the concept of the Sabbath as a day of rest.
‘‘You're not allowed to drive? So you have to walk everywhere?''
‘‘Can you take a bus? Can you ride a horse?''
‘‘I don't think you're supposed to spend the Sabbath worrying about how to get around the rules.''
Fasting caused more head-scratching.
Questions about reli ... |
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Bearing visions of global peace |
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A new movement called the Global Peace Initiative is being launched in America Aug. 9 on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. It is a movement that is destined to be loved by Americans because it affirms values close to the heart of the American people: faith in God, compassion for all, and family as the basis for love and peace.
It is movement that reminds me of what happened in America at the Lincoln Memorial, 45 years ago when Dr. King made a statement that changed the ... |
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The photo from The London Free Press on May 9, 2008 |
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DEREK RUTTAN Sun Media -- Rabbi David Rosen, left, UWOs Muslim chaplain Munir El-Kassem - president of the IIID - and Anglican Bishop of Ottawa John Chapman are shown prior to convocation ceremonies at Huron University College. Rosen and Chapman were conferred with doctor of divinity degrees, with El-Kassem delivering the citation for Rosens degree. ... |
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New for 2008 - Introducing Birthright Palestine |
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Birthright Palestine is a unique program by native Palestinians for Diaspora Palestinians, so as to assimilate them back into their homeland via cultural immersion. It is meant to gather first-generation, western-born Palestinians (over the age of 18-years old) in their ancestral homeland, so that they can reunite and witness firsthand how their brethren are living under illegal Israeli military occupation, while assimilating them into Palestinian society.
The program is made-up of fo ... |
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Cadets sample cultural diversity |
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Cadets sample cultural diversity
West Point class helps prepare for life overseas
By Alexa James
Times Herald-Record
April 05, 2008 6:00 AM
JERSEY CITY — The male cadets join the Muslim men in the mosque's main foyer. Shoulder to shoulder, they bow to the east, as the Imam recites the Friday prayer.
The female cadets listen from a balcony two floors up, where the Muslim women pray. Their heads wrapped in white, they crowd close around an Egyptian native named Suzanne Loutfy, w ... |
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World Council of Churches backs dialogue with Islam |
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Wed 26 Mar 2008, 15:07 GMT
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
PARIS (Reuters) - The World Council of Churches, which groups the main non-Catholic Christian churches, urged its members on Wednesday to open a dialogue with Muslim scholars seeking inter-faith cooperation to promote justice and peace.
The Geneva-based WCC said it wanted to organise discussions on theology and ethics with signatories of A Common Word, a call for Christian-Muslim dialogue issued by 138 Islamic scholars la ... |
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