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• Montco resident speaks of escape from tsunami | Pushpa Vij, of Plymouth Meeting, had chosen the day the tsunami disaster struck to see for the first time the "natural beauty" of southern India. (Pottstown Mercury, Penn.)
• FHU teachers head to Sri Lanka | Mark Hooper and Jake and Melanie Morris will all be in southern Asia helping with the tsunami relief efforts. The three FHU faculty members left this morning headed to Sri Lanka. (Jackson Sun, Tenn.)
• Tsunami relief workers prepare for departure | On a recent evening at the Crossroads Community Church in Wasilla, hunting guide Mark Sebens emerged from a pile of cardboard boxes, plastic containers and backpacks holding two plastic buckets, and said he was ready to go to Sri Lanka. (Frontiersman, Ark.)
• Baylor students launch "Bear The Burden" campaign for tsunami victims | Baylor University's Student Government has launched an effort called "Bear the Burden" to raise $50,000 for tsunami relief efforts by Feb. 7. (KWTX, Texas)
• Tsunami renews mission | Just returned from India, nurse plans to go again to help poor (Modesto Bee, Calif.)

Prayer & memorial:

• The universal language of grief | Members of the Dallas/Fort Worth Hindu Temple held a deepa puja Sunday morning. The "prayer of light," honoring victims of southern Asia's earthquake and tsunamis, felt something like a candlelight vigil in any church or synagogue. But the Hindu religious response to massive human tragedy is essentially different. (Dallas Morning News, via Centre Daily Times, State College, Penn.)
• Germany holds services for tsunami victims | German leaders, including President Horst Koehler and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, joined the heads of the country's leading churches in ecumenical mourning services in Berlin on Sunday to pay tribute to the victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia. (Expatica, Netherlands)
• Interfaith Service: Honoring the victims | 125 gather to pay respects to tsunami dead (Tucson Citizen, Ariz.)
• 5,000 Singaporeans attend tsunami memorial service | A minute's silence was observed after representatives from the five countries delivered short speeches and local religious leaders from nine different faiths including Buddhism, Islam and Christianity offered prayers for the victims of the disaster. (AFP)
• Arroyo leads interfaith prayers for tsunami victims | They came from all faiths-Buddhists, Muslims, Roman Catholics and other Christians-and they all came with flowers and prayers. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippines)
• RP observes day of prayer for tsunami victims | The country marked a national day of prayer and mourning for victims of the killer tsunamis in Asia and Africa Friday, which started with a pray over session for President Arroyo. (Sun Star, Philippines)
• Faiths gather to offer prayers and comfort | Representatives of Victoria's diverse religious communities came together yesterday in a multi-faith vigil at Federation Square to help make sense of the tsunami disaster. (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
• Interfaith service to show support for tsunami victims | Leaders of Quad-City faith communities are making plans for Tsunami Compassion Quad-Cities, an interfaith service to honor the thousands of people affected by the tsunami and earthquake disasters in the Indian Ocean. (Quad City Times, Iowa)

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