Organizations

Projects, organizations in Suffield get funding (Journal Inquirer)

16 May 2008

SUFFIELD — Grants totaling $77,500 were awarded to nine town organizations and projects by the Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving this week.

Burma: monks vs. junta (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)

16 May 2008

The longstanding tensions between the two largest organizations in Burma (Myanmar) – the military and the Buddhist clergy – are finding new outlets as both groups confront the devastating aftermath of cyclone Nargis.

Rights Groups React to Russian Charges (New York Times)

16 May 2008

Rights organizations have accused the Russian government of persecuting the Sakharov Museum in Moscow by charging its director, Yuri Samodurov, above, with inciting ?religious hatred? and ?offending human dignity? when he mounted a 2007 exhibition, ?Forbidden Art,? which outraged some members of the Orthodox Church, Agence France-Presse reported.