Class Teaches Virtues to Children of Many Faiths
March 07, 2008 National Public Radio (NPR)
In Falls Church, Virginia, a new kind of Sunday school is getting off the ground. A Baha’i couple, Layli and Gil Miller-Muro, has invited families from a range of religions to gather at their home to teach virtues to their young children.
February 28, 2008 Sojourners Magazine
Democrats, Republicans and others should forget partisan politics for a moment, urges Brian McLaren, to applaud President Bush´s commitment to African development. Read it here.
Why Lebanon hasn’t slipped into civil war
February 22, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor
According to Helena Cobba, writing for the Christian Science Monitor, it´s because rival factions have worked hard to defuse points of conflict. Read more.
February 29, 2008 CommonDreams
U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries as part of an effort to end the bloody conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read about the group, called Iraq Veterans Against the War.
February 27, 2008 The Epoch Times
Amidst the rampant anti-police sentiment that has arisen in response to the Sean Bell trial–in which three New York City police officers are on trial for killing Sean Bell, an unarmed black man, on his wedding day–one writer urges that the police be ‘given a chance’. He argues that the media has taken the most sensational–and facile anti-establishment– angle in its coverage of the case, forgoing an analysis of the more complicated facts behind the tragic case.
February 27, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor
An American-raised Iranian man, Alireza, is seen as the symbol of Iran´s diplomatic future in this article by Iason Athanasiadis, a 2008 Nieman fellow and author of the upcoming book, “Children of the Revolution: Khomeini’s Unintended Legacy.” Read about Alireza´s desire to see the United States and Iran strike an alliance and his determination to make such an alliance happen.
