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UN Youth Rep Addresses UN, Pastor Advancing Race Relations, Leo Lefebure New Chapter Release, Compassionate Action, Religion and Ecology at Council on Foreign Relations, Parliament Joins Salt Lake Partners to Celebrate World Interfaith Harmony Week

Parliament Rep Sara Rahim Delivers Keynote Address at UN for World Interfaith Harmony Week

Youth Representative of the Parliament to the United Nations DPI NGO Ms. Sara Rahim delivers the youth keynote speech on the occasion of World Interfaith Harmony Week at the special event of the President of the General Assembly on February 6, 2015. Sara Rahim addresses this year’s United Nations theme for World Interfaith Harmony Week: the role of Multi-religious Partnerships for Sustainable Development.

Watch the program and read Sara's full speech on the role of the Parliament, Interfaith Networks, Youth, and Women in advancing the UN Sustainable Development Agenda...

Police Chief Turned Pastor Improves Race Relations


NORTH LAKE, Wis. — In the days leading up to Christmas, the aging pastor of a small Episcopal church set amid the glacial hills here began to write a parable. It came neither from Scripture nor from yuletide tradition, but rather from the priest’s very different earlier life. The Rev. David Couper, 77, recalled the predawn hours of a March day nearly a quarter-century ago. A fire had broken out at a housing project in Madison, Wis., where he was the chief Read more...

Share the Message of World Interfaith Harmony 

Spirituality Key to Future Interreligious Relations


During World Interfaith Harmony Week, Parliament Trustee Emeritus Dr. Leo D. Lefebure shares a chapter he is contributing to the forthcoming book, Interfaith Spirituality: The Power of Confluence. Lefebure demonstrates how Many Christian denominations are advancing relationships through reconciliation with the world's major traditions, and makes a theological case for interreligious relationships to continue growing "We often unconsciously assume that our manner of thinking and living is universally valid. Often we come to realize..." Read more...

Climate Change Increasing Human Trafficking Around the World

Compassion Games Inspire World Interfaith Harmony Week Acts of Kindness Across the Globe 


 

Love and Water Create Interfaith Harmony at Salt Lake City Event

 

Members of the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable gathered for their prayer breakfast as a kickoff to the Interfaith Season. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes spoke about the need of faith and light to aid in combating some of the darkness in the world. Parliament representatives joined in the celebration of faith, love, and water as themes to drive harmony across Utah's many religious communities.  Read more...

 
 

Religious Leaders and Scholars Can Learn About Religious Environmentalism Monday


CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series on Monday, February 9, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. (ET) will feature Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-director of Yale University's Forum on Religion and Ecology. Tucker will lead an on-the-record conversation on the role of faith-based organizations in global efforts to address climate change. Read more...
 




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