Source: Los Angeles Times

On September 9, 2002 the Los Angeles Times reported that "hundreds [of 9/11 memorials] will be held in places of worship and in public places across Southern California in the next few days to mark the Sept. 11 anniversary. The largest inter-religious gathering in Orange County will be A Prayer Service for Peace at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Columban Church in Garden Grove. Jewish, Islamic and Buddhist leaders will join bishops and other local heads of major Christian denominations for an interfaith service.

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

On September 8, 2002 The San Francisco Chronicle reported that "studying the violent passages in the Psalms, Norman Fischer saw something none of us can deny. Judaism and Christianity -- just like the Muslim faith -- can be used to justify the killing of innocents in the name of God. Fischer tries to reconcile all this in Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms. Meanwhile, another popular Buddhist teacher with Jewish roots and a Bay Area address is out with his own book of interfaith inspiration...

Source: Copley News Service

On August 30, 2002 Copley News Service reported that Sheriff Lee Baca of Los Angeles "announced Thursday he will mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with an interfaith prayer vigil designed to promote harmony between religious faiths...

���Representatives of Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Islam, Jewish, Hindu and other faiths will convene that day ... The 'Towers of Faith Prayer Vigil' event, which is open to the public, is seen as a way of celebrating the region's religious, ethnic and...

Source: The Press Enterprise

On August 29, 2002 The Press Enterprise reported on Thich Pho Hoa, a Vietnamese monk who spent 13 years in "re-education camps" in Vietnam after the Vietnam war. On Sunday, he "will teach Buddha's virtues to youths from the Inland region and across California. He will hand out roses at a Sunday festival to honor parents. The ceremony is part of Vu Lan, a four-week season of veneration to parents and ancestors. He will host a banquet Saturday that's expected to attract at least 500 people -- a record figure for his fledgling...

Source: Hospital Topics

In the Winter, 2002 issue, Hospital Topics reported that "to be effective, [hospital] managers must have a basic understanding of the implications of cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity, as the number of Americans whose culture, ethnicity, and religion differ from those of the American mainstream increases... This means that the expectations and needs of diverse staff and, as important, the various patients treated in [hospitals] must be understood and met to the greatest extent possible... [The article] provides a basic...

Source: The Times Union

http://www.dharmawalk.org

On August 26, 2002 The Times Union reported that "20 peace marchers began a journey from Schenectady County [New York] to New York City on Sunday...    They plan to reach New York Sept. 11 in time for a candlelight vigil seeking a nonviolent resolution to global conflicts...    Representing various religions and nationalities, marchers started near the site of the former Mohawk Mall in Niskayuna and made their way to the Islamic Community...

Source: Albuquerque Tribune

On August 24, 2002 the Albuquerque Tribune reported that "three local organizations have teamed up to survey how people born abroad hold on to their culture... language, art and religion [in Albuquerque, New Mexico]... the survey... is aimed at identifying and documenting about 45 ethnic groups with populations of 750 or more... Funding slightly more than $60,000 comes from the city's Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, New Mexico Arts and the Arts Alliance...   Interviews are designed to find...

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

On August 16, 2002 The Columbus Dispatch reported that "for millennia, religions have addressed workplace ethics and business conduct. In recent months, however, such issues have been given heightened attention because of corporate scandals, widespread layoffs and the vast influence of corporations... Lama Kathy Wesley of the Karma Thegsum Choling Buddhist Meditation Center on the West Side, said people in her temple often come to her with questions about work relationships and duties. They sometimes express anxiety about...

Source: Tricycle: the Buddhist Review

On August 16, 2002 Tricycle: the Buddhist Review featured the article "Down Home Dharma" about Buddhism in the American South by Pluralism Project affiliate Jeff Wilson. "In the last thirty years, the South has experienced an explosion in the number of Buddhists and Buddhist centers....

Source: The New York Times

On August 10, 2002 The New York Times featured an article on Buddhism in Hawai'i and the state's famous Bon dances. "Bon dances are Buddhist religious events in which participants dance to rejoice in the annual return visit of departed loved ones... Bon dances arrived here with Japanese sugar workers in the 19th century. But in recent decades, the celebrations have crossed ethnic and religious lines to become an elaborate church fair... All summer long, families of Philippine, Caucasian, Hawaiian, Chinese and multiethnic...

Source: India Abroad

On August 9, 2002 India Abroad featured an article on a new book by Mahalingum Kolapen documenting Hindu temples across the United States. The book, co-published by the Hindu University of America and the Hindu Temple Council of North America, "contains 320 full color pages of photographs and line drawings of 28 temples in the U.S. and two in Canada, and includes not only temples from the Hindu tradition, but also representative samples of Jain, Sikh and Buddhist temples.... 'In publishing this book, we are celebrating the need for...

Source: Chicago Daily Herald

On August 8, 2002 the Chicago Daily Herald reported that a "conflict within Elgin [Illinois'] sizeable Lao Buddhist community over the move and expansion of their temple is now... [moving] into court... Saysana 'Na' Songvilay, temple member and former three-term president of the Lao Association of Illinois, and two others successfully obtained a court order temporarily stopping Patrick Wu, the temple's president, from spending any large amounts of money on new temple-related projects...  Songvilay claims Wu bypassed the...

Source: The Boston Globe

On August 8, 2002 The Boston Globe reported that monks and organizers from the Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Lowell, Massachusetts participated in a ceremony for the Aug. 17 festival that expects "an estimated 50,000 [visitors]... The monks in their bright orange robes and sandals, some visiting from the Trairatanaram Temple in North Chelmsford, chanted for several minutes to bring good luck to the Southeast Asian Water Festival... According to the monks, the Lowell festival loosely mimics another successful water festival that is...

Source: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0802/04teranniversary.html

On August 4, 2002 The Atlanta Journal and Constitution reported that "the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America will be commemorated with tolling bells, common prayers and moments of silence... Sept. 11 is expected to be a time for public grieving and spiritual connection... Muslim...

Source: The Seattle Times

On August 4, 2002 The Seattle Times reported that 4 Tibetan monks in Redmond, Washington, created "a sand mandala, a religious and artistic expression symbolizing harmony between the environment and living beings... The piece illustrates core principles of Buddhism, said the group's translator...  The monks are touring cities in the United States and Canada to raise money for their Gaden Jangtse monastery in south India...  Part of the monks' mission is to educate people about Tibet's political situation. Many Tibetan Buddhists...