This article, originally published in the Sourcebook for Earth’s Community of Religions, describes a particularly good example of interfaith “cooperative activities” generated around ethical and critical issues of our time. Number 4 in our series covering various interfaith organizations.
Representatives of each of Iraq’s major religious groups - including Shi’ite, Sunni, and Christian leaders - today [05/28/2003] rejected violence and called for common action to build a just society in Iraq. This was the first time representatives of all Iraqi religions met since Saddam Hussein took power.
Links to articles covering various events of interest from May, 2003: “Phillipines: Enough of Bloodshed, Zambo Interfaith Conference Says,” “Religious Investors, Advocacy Groups Issue First Global 'Bench Marks' for Corporate Behavior,” “Evangelicals Condemn Anti-Islam Remarks,” “Meeting Recommends Strong Inter-Religious Ties On AIDS,” “Charlotte walks for AIDS awareness,” “Zimbabwe: Interfaith-Based Approach Effective in Fight Against AIDS”
Gustav Niebuhr reviews the history of the interfaith movement in America in this article for the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.
What's about to unfold in Iraq may be the most dramatic
act yet in the tragic split we've created in our minds between the natural and supernatural; the physical and metaphysical. It may hasten their reconciliation, or potentially begin the endgame. By Tom Mahon
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