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    Social, Religious Funds Have Big Returns

    January 2, 2007

    Author: Tim Paradis

    Source: Las Vegas Sun

    Wire Service: AP

    http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/invest-econ/2007/jan/02/010202184.html

    NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street presumably isn't a place where those hoping to mend their ways in the new year might turn for inspiration. But some investors looking to better align their social or religious convictions with their investments have found...

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    Touting the Muslim Culture in the Bible Belt

    January 2, 2007

    Author: KATHY HANRAHAN

    Source: The Buffalo News

    Wire Service: AP

    http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070102/1005965.asp

    JACKSON, Miss. - This mid-sized Southern city with its thriving Baptist, Methodist and Catholic churches may seem an unlikely home for one of the only museums in the United States devoted entirely to Muslim culture.

    Still, the International Museum of Muslim Culture opened in April...

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    Inmate Religion Law Upheld in Virginia

    January 2, 2007

    Author: Matt Reed

    Source: The Washington Times

    Wire Service: AP

    http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20070101-114037-6846r.htm

    RICHMOND -- A federal appeals court has upheld a federal law that protects the rights of prison inmates to practice their religion.

    The state of Virginia had challenged the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), contending that Congress had exceeded its...

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    Buddhists Find Home in Fort Wayne

    January 2, 2007

    Author: Cathie Rowand

    Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Journal Gazette

    http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,3590,0,0,1,0

    Fort Wayne, IN (USA) -- Fort Wayne has always embraced immigrants -- from Germans more than a century ago to the influx of Burmese in the past 10 years.

    The Mons, a minority group in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, chose Fort Wayne for the high-paying factory jobs and low cost of living....

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    Diwali Month in NJ Planned

    January 2, 2007

    Author: SRIREKHA N. CHAKRAVARTY

    Source: India Post News Service

    http://www.indiapost.com/members/story.php?story_id=5967

    NEW JERSEY: The New Year may light up a historic development in the State of New Jersey - the recognition of October 15th through November 15th of each year as "Diwali Month."

    This, following a landmark resolution-AJR-123 introduced by Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula in 2006 and supported by Senator Barbara Buono with...

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