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A Weekend of Holy Greetings, Butalia Wins Focolare Unity Award, Dr. Jane Goodall on Global Water, Laudato Si and Berta Caceres, Religious Education and Kids, Gender Pay Gap Among Clergy
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Parliament Ambassador Working in Brussels Says Interfaith Relationships Help Healing After Terrorism

by Johannes Steijnebrugh, Parliament Ambassador in the Netherlands

How to describe what feelings are in my heart now that Brussels has been under attack and so many people have been killed by terrorist attacks? What to do now?

It is a chilling thought that I know and used that very subway station in Brussels- recently, regularly, while going to interreligious meetings in Brussels. I could have been a victim, too, and left my wife and child behind.

In conversations about this kind of risk I told my family that even in the "unlikely event" of this happening to me, I still think that taking the risk is preferable to a world without freedom to speak out, without interreligious contacts, without work for peace. That kind of world would seem to me like a real inferno on earth.

Read Why a Clergy Member Defends "#PrayFor-" Hashtags, and the Parliament's March 22 Response on Social Media to the Brussels Attacks:


"Our hearts are heavy in mourning with Brussels, a city of intellect, imagination and hospitality to families from around the world, a host that was originally planned to make a home for our last Parliament. A city that said the global interfaith movement is welcome to be with us in creating a more compassionate, just, and peaceful Brussels." 

Share an Interfaith Greeting from the Parliament This Weekend


Christians, Zoroastrians, and Sikhs are celebrating holy days this weekend. 
 

Honoring Peacebuilding, Interfaith Dialogue, Focolare Movement Selects Butalia for 2016 Unity Award


Parliament Trustee Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Luminosa Award for Unity, an honor presented annually since 1998 by the Focolare Movement Mariapolis Luminosa of North America.

The Focolare movement pays tribute through this award to Butalia’s decades of work in interreligious dialogue and peacemaking, as well as for his scientific contributions to environmental sustainability.

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Spend 2 Minutes with Dr. Jane Goodall Hearing Her Take on the Global Water Crisis (Released for World Water Day) 

"..You get this bottled water proudly announcing that it's come all the way from Fiji-- 2000 miles away from land. What's it doing to the people there? It's taking their water away, the rich taking the resources of the poor, which was the old colonial way, which has led to so many problems. So, the next wars..."

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A Martyr of ‘Laudato Si’? The Indigenous Spirituality of Assassinated Activist Berta Cáceres

By Betsey Shirley for Sojourners

Less than two weeks after the March 3 murder of acclaimed indigenous Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, Nelson García, another Honduran activist, was murdered outside his home. Both García and Cáceres were members of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the indigenous rights organization Cáceres co-founded.

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Why Kids Must Learn About Religion Much Earlier

By Linda K. Wertheimer for Time Magazine

In public schools, since the late 1990s and early 2000s, most state standards have required teaching about the world’s religions as a part of history or geography in middle and high school. That’s too late. Some private and public schools, such as the roughly 1,200 using the Core Knowledge curriculum founded by researcher E.D. Hirsch Jr., teach about world religions to children as early as first grade. But most schools shy away from such lessons because teachers lack training about religion or educators fear backlash from parents.

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After Brussels, Say to a Muslim, "I'm Glad You're Here."

 

"After the attacks in Brussels, many of us are asking, 'what can I do?' Here's somewhere to start: If you are not Muslim, say to someone who is, 'I'm glad you're here.' If you do not know a Muslim, meet a Muslim and say, 'I'm glad you're here.'" 

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The Gender Pay Gap Worse Among Clergy Than National Average

By Tobin Grant for Religion News Service

New national data [ in the United States ] reveals that women clergy earn 76 cents for each dollar earned by male clergy. This is substantially worse than the national pay gap of 83 cents. The clergy pay gap is even more stark when compared to similar occupations.

Up until this year, national data on the clergy pay gap was unavailable. There were denominational surveys or surveys of clergy from similar faiths, but we lacked national data that would include churches and faiths left out of those surveys. Even with large surveys of churches, there was no way to make valid comparisons to the pay in other occupations.

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