by Austin Almaguer 

Contrary to the collective nostalgia of news coverage as daring reporting focused on truth telling, the final news coverage (whether printed newspaper, television broadcast, etc) is the product of the different forces within a news organization.  Indeed, each of these forces decides the newsworthiness of a particular report. Newspaper owners want news coverage that encourages newspaper purchases and extends…

Dr. Anantanand Rambachan (a CPWR trustee) will speak with Rev. Ellen Grace O’Brian (also a CPWR trustee!) online this Thursday.

from the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment:

Awaken Love and Compassion through Discovering the Atman, the True Self

Dr. Anantanand Rambachan

on the Yoga…

from Interfaith Youth Core

What if you were equipped to mobilize a movement for interfaith cooperation on your campus? Join us at one of our Interfaith Leadership Institutes (ILIs) for students, faculty, and staff. You’ll return to campus with the core skills of interfaith leadership, ready to organize Better Together.

Join us from June 18-21 in Chicago or July 16-19 in Philadelphia for an ILI. …

by Katherine Marshall

from Huffington Post

March 22 is World Water Day, and today events the world over focus on water’s importance, for life in every form, and for the human spirit.

Few would disagree that WASH — the acronym that links water, sanitation and hygiene — is a…

from Huffington Post

Pew Forum Releases New 50-State Survey of Prison Chaplains: Study Provides Rare Window into Religion Behind Bars

Washington, D.C. — From the perspective of the nation’s professional prison chaplains, America’s state penitentiaries are a bustle of religious activity. According to “…

Lian Gogali, from Indonesia, is the first recipient of the Coexist Prize.  She was honored for her outstanding and courageous work establishing Institute Mosintuwu educating Muslim and Christian women and children in post-conflict Poso. The runners up were Mustafa Ali, the Secretary General of the African Council of Religious Leaders and Dishani Jayweera the founder of the Centre for Peace Building and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka. The ceremony took place at the Skirball Auditorium…

Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, the Council’s Chair of the Board of Trustees, championed interfaith collaboration as one of the greatest forces for water conservation, protection and positive consumer change.  Imam Mujahid was among the speakers for the United Nations’ World Water Day Conference in Chicago, hosted by the Office of the Governor.

World Water Day has been observed on March 22^nd since 1993 voted by the United Nations as “a means of focusing attention on the…

by Jerry L. Van Marter

from Presbyterian News Service

More than three dozen religious leaders today (March 22) unveiled a “faithful budget” that they say will address the nation’s needs and priorities rather than partisan political considerations.

According to a press release from the “Faithful Budget Campaign,” its priorities for a faithful budget are a set of comprehensive…

by Abdul Malik Mujahid

from Sharia101.org

You might have seen a government-required sign at a McDonald’s restroom telling employees to wash their hands. Muslims do this as a part of living their faith, which is called Sharia in Arabic. The Prophet Muhammad also encouraged Muslims to wash their hands before and after eating. Muslim parents raise their children on many such manners. The first chapter in almost all books on…

by Jillian Berman

from the Huffington Post

For lent this year, some will inevitably give up the usual guilty pleasures like chocolate or meat. More than a few churches are taking a decidedly different approach.

About 25 churches have …

from Mathrubhumi

UAE-based business magnate M.A. Yusuf Ali, who belongs to a village in Kerala, was Thursday presented with the prestigious Interfaith Harmony Award at a function in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

The award was handed over by Datur Azman bin Hassan, director general of Malaysia’s department of national unity and integration.

The international Interfaith Harmony Award is the prime…

“One of the most dynamic new leaders in the interfaith field,” Joshua Stanton, CPWR’s Religious Leadership Fellow, has been nominated for the 2012 Coexist Prize, a prestigious award given by the Coexist Foundation.  The foundation cited Stanton’s groundbreaking work in harnessing new media for interreligious dialogue, specifically highlighting State of…

from JTA.org

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A group of U.S. Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith leaders briefed lawmakers on their tour of Indonesia, Jordan and Israel.

The six-day trip on the role of religion in advancing Middle East peace was led by Rabbi Sid Schwarz and included 12 religious leaders from the United States and 12 religious leaders from Indonesia. It was organized by…

Alexandra Asseily

		Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:00am U.S. Central Time

This webinar offers participants the…

photo by John White

by Sarah Fentem

At the fifth gathering of the monthly “Sharing Sacred Spaces” program, the Rev. Phil Blackwell, Senior Pastor at the First United Methodist Church in the Chicago Loop, mentioned it was not uncommon for passers-by to mistake the church for a bank or hotel.

The passers-by could be forgiven. At street level, the…

by Victoria Ward

from The Telegraph

In a timely address to leaders of Britain’s nine main religions at Lambeth Palace, London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, she highlighted the importance of faith in society and the “critical guidance” it offered in life.

“The concept of our established Church is occasionally misunderstood and, I…

by Katie Taylor

from the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty.

Ms. Fatima Gerbil knows from personal experience the challenges children in her community face. As a child Fatuma became an orphan, and as she grew older, she began to understand more and more the personal burden carried by parentless children.

In 2003, she started the Community-Based Child Support Program, directed at both Christians and Muslims, in Bahirdar, Ethopia, which began with 87…

by Chris Stedman

from Relevant Magazine

“It’s been a long time, Tiffer,” he said through one of his characteristically gigantic grins. It had been nearly as long since anyone outside my family called me that name.

“It sure has, Doogie,” I said, returning his grin, imagining he hadn’t heard that nickname in a while, either. As an espresso machine rattled and…

by Alison Shuman

Kazan is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, one of 21 semi-autonomous ethnic republics in the Russian Federation. It is a beautiful city located at the convergence of the Volga and Kazan Rivers about 700 kilometers east of Moscow. I first traveled to Kazan during a post-college backpacking trip in which I spent three months traveling and photographing in Russia from the European side through Siberia. As part of a riverboat cruise down the Volga,…

Alexandra Asseily

		Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:00am U.S. Central Time

This webinar offers participants the…