Author: Steve Chawkins

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-trust7nov07,1,4858008.story?coll=la-news-religion

After months of contentious debate, a Bakersfield school district has voted to display the phrase "In God We Trust" on the walls of more than 2,300 classrooms, school libraries, administrative offices and the board's meeting room.

Adopted by Congress as...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7080327.stm

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican - the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch.

The Vatican described the private meeting as "warm" and said the two men discussed the presence and hard work of Christians in Saudi Arabia.

An estimated 1.5m Christians live in Saudi Arabia but are...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: EarthTimes

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/136619.html

The Vatican Monday urged religious tolerance in a greeting for the Hindu festival of Diwali which many of the estimated one billion followers of the world's oldest religion will celebrate on November 9. The message titled "Christians and Hindus: Determined to Walk the Path of Dialogue", was signed by the head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious...

Author: ALISSA J. RUBIN

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/world/middleeast/05cardinal.html

There is neither a cross nor a sign on the heavy metal gate to indicate that this is the official residence of one of the country’s most prominent Christians, the first in Iraq in modern times to be elevated to cardinal by the Roman Catholic Church.

The simple structure, in a dilapidated neighborhood of...

Author: Gregg Krupa

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071101/LIFESTYLE04/711010368/1041/LIFESTYLE04

SOUTHFIELD -- Elizabeth Aprahamian, 5 years old and precious in a folkloric costume of her family's homeland, stood in the vestibule of St. John Armenian Church on Wednesday night waiting for the arrival of Karekin II, the pontiff of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox...

Author: Brian Montopoli

Source: CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/31/politics/main3437433.shtml

In the 2004 election, according to exit polls, 78 percent of white evangelicals voted for George W. Bush. The president's deft use of religious language, socially conservative policy positions and unprecedented outreach program had galvanized highly religious voters, and there was serious talk of a permanent Republican...

Author: Mark Kelly

Source: Baptist Press

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=26698

Evangelicals should take a cautious view of a proposed code of ethics banning "unethical" efforts to persuade people to accept Christ, two Southern Baptist professors have said.

In August, the World Evangelical Alliance joined the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Pontifical Council in a dialogue at Toulouse, France, aimed at creating a...

Author: Mike Dorning

Source: Chicago Tribune

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Author: Francis X. Rocca

Source: The Pew Forum, Religion News Service

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=14377

Muslim leaders who attended an interfaith peace conference with Pope Benedict XVI chided the pope for not responding to a recent olive branch from Muslim scholars, and complained that the reaction of a high Vatican official "misses the very point of dialogue."

Their complaints stem from an open letter, signed by 138 Muslim...

Author: GLEN JOHNSON

Source: The Associated Press

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jRqe3yywGAI4Y6ZtwLqpe8k0GmVg

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been embraced in a most unlikely place: at Bob Jones University, the influential Christian college that teaches that his Mormon church is a cult.

In early voting South Carolina, Romney has picked up support among the evangelicals and social...

Author: Stefan J. Bos

Source: BosNewsLife News

http://www.bosnewslife.com/news/3228-india-police-and-hindu-militants-besieget

Police forces and Hindu militants interrupted a major Christian convention in India's state of Chhattisgarh and forced a pastor to hand over names of people who "accepted Christ", a Christian official told BosNewsLife Sunday, October 21.

Police and Hindu militants attempted to storm the "...

Author: Jennifer Chambers

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710150365

BERKLEY -- Christmas may be weeks away, but a quarrel that has become an annual holiday tradition across America is in full swing: heated disputes over religious displays on public property.

An infant Jesus, mother Mary and Joseph are again at the center of this long-brewing legal controversy, this time in the city of...

Author: Lisa Riley Roche

Source: Deseret Morning News

https://www.deseret.com/archives/2007/10

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is going to have to confront the confusion surrounding his Mormon faith at some point during the campaign, the head of the Washington, D.C.-based Interfaith Alliance said Wednesday.

"There is...

Author: NICOLE WINFIELD

Source: The Associated Press

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPP2fFZeWbgrtj1sxY3wth8S8neAD8S52J280

Top officials from the World Jewish Congress met Monday with Pope Benedict XVI to voice concern about Iran but also to encourage pursuing a dialogue with moderate Muslims, participants said.

WJC President Ronald Lauder and the group's new secretary general, Michael Schneider, met with Benedict in...

Author: James Varghese

Source: Jouranl Chretien/Assist News Service

http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve1985

Two evangelists were beaten up by Hindu attackers in a church in Mangalawadi village in the Hassan District of Karnataka on Thursday, October 4.

This news was carried by Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) on their website [->www.persecution.in].

According to their report, the evangelists, Sudhakar and Issac, who...