also a new and controversial multifaith university training future minsters, rabbis not only in their own traditions and in each other's. >> major funding for religion and ethics news weekly is provided by the lily endowment, an inian ap lis-based family foundation dedicated to founders in christian religion, community development and education. additional funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. the estate of william j carter and the jane henson foundation and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome. i'm bob aber nethy. good to have you with us. as the occupy wall street movement spreads around the world, religious leaders continue to play a role in the demonstrations. in london, st. paul's ka ahead at yal ral shut down for the first time since world war ii about the growing protester who is set up camp on the church's grounds. they worried their presence was a safety hazard. here in the u.s., more than 200 clergy signed a petition calling for economic justice and offe

many students feel they couldn't get this multifaith education anywhere else. >> most of the reason i'm here is i looked at other colleges and other programs and it appeared that they were preparing students to be leaders in the church of yesterday where claremont is training people to be leaders in the church of tomorrow. >> reporter: this school's ambition to train muslim clerics is important to valentina khan, a muslim american student of iranian descent. >> i definitely think we need to have a voice that's an american voice as muslims. having somebody in saudi arabia tell us how it should be here in america is, in my opinion, not the way i'd want to be told. >> reporter: however, the creation of the school has also generated some criticism. >> i'm actively involved in blogging and social networking and i began to find sites that would label what we were doing as the work of the devil and people absolutely guaranteeing the blogosphere that i was on my way to hell. so it really drew a hostility. people felt that we were undercutting the way they defined their entire religious traditio