News Briefs, April 2003
April 15th, 2003 by sfuqua
Links to assorted recent articles on interfaith topics from organization and media sources: “Agnivesh Addresses Interfaith Breakfast Meeting,” “Holmes Rolston III Wins 2003 Templeton Prize,” “Interfaith Gatherings Find Common Ground,” “Office Politics and God,” “OMNI Television's New Interfaith Series Explores Spiritual Commonalities (Canada),” “Muslims at Pontifical Universities Aim to Bridge Gap,” “Strong Showing on Global Warming Resolution at AEP Is 'Big Win' for Shareholder Activists,” “World Vision Kosovo Recieves Prestigious US Institute of Peace Grant.”
Agnivesh addresses interfaith breakfast meeting
The Interfaith Brotherhood/Sisterhood Committee of Bergen County in New
Jersey, an umbrella organization, held its 16th annual Interfaith
Breakfast, hosted by the New Jersey chapter of the Arya Samaj, on Feb.
18. The breakfast, featuring Swami Agnivesh, chairperson of the United
Nations Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, was hosted at the
Marriott Glenpointe in Teaneck. More than 520 people participated in this
President's Day tradition celebrating different religious faiths
and human ethnicity.
Holmes Rolston
III Wins 2003 Templeton Prize
NEW YORK, MARCH 19 — Holmes Rolston III, Professor of
Philosophy at Colorado State University, whose 30 years of research,
writing and lecturing on the religious imperative to respect nature have
established the field of environmental ethics, has been named the 2003
Templeton Prize laureate. The prize, valued at more than one million
dollars, was announced today at a news conference at the Church Center
for the United Nations in New York.
Interfaith gatherings find common ground
Some in this assorted group of 60 Christians, Muslims and Jews who have
come together in early April for Georgetown University's 33rd annual
Interfaith Passover Seder stumble over the unfamiliar words. Others find
a familiar ritual filled with unfamiliar moments, as when a Jesuit priest
stands to give testimony to the commitment of Jesus and a Muslim imam
rises to speak about giving up selfishness and tribalism to the greater
glory of God.
Muslims, Jews, Pentecostal Baptists — religious discrimination in the
workplace is an equal-opportunity troublemaker.
OMNI Television's New Interfaith Series Explores Spiritual
Commonalities
OMNI Television's new four-part
series, On Common Ground, brings together members of the Christian,
Islamic and Jewish faiths for an enriching dialogue that explores their
respective beliefs, based on their scriptures — how they all started in
the same region of the Middle East, where they connect and how each can
learn from the other — in a modern context.
Muslims at Pontifical Universities Aim to Bridge a Gap
At a time of heightened tensions in the Mideast, it is significant that
pontifical universities in Rome now count Muslims among their students.
Three young Muslim women, for example, are studying Christianity at the
Gregorian University this year in order to participate in the
conversation between religions.
Strong
Showing on Global Warming Resolution at AEP is 'Big win' for Shareholder
Activists
A global warming proxy resolution garnering 26.9 percent of shareholder
support today at American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) is a “big win” for
shareholder advocate members of the
Interfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility (ICCR) pressuring major U.S. utilities to take action
on climate-change issues.
World Vision Kosovo receives prestigious US Institute of Peace
grant
World Vision Kosovo have been awarded a
US Institute of Peace (USIP) grant after approaching the institute with
an innovative peacebuilding concept that proposed to support the local
level religious leaders as they tried to bring about a peaceful
resolution to a number of difficult issues in their ethnically polarised
community.
