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Participants in a consultation on the Korean crisis have called for immediate negotiations to find a peaceful solution. Religious leaders from South Korea and the United States joined with humanitarian workers June 16-18 to seek immediate, international conversation focusing on a nonviolent resolution of the crisis with North Korea — a crisis fueled both by that country's pursuit of nuclear weapons and by the need of its people for humanitarian aid.

Religious leaders meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, today called for a solution to the rapidly escalating conflict in Liberia and its impact on all of the West African region. A group led by senior clerics from across Africa formally presented an appeal to a committee of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) this morning. The Committee on Foreign Affairs accepted and endorsed the appeal and urged its adoption by the full Parliament this afternoon.

As a part of promoting U.R.I’s preambles, principles and purposes some the U.R.I. Cooperation Circles have taken up the initiative in checking growing environmental degradation by popularizing the tree plantation.

Review of A Sacred Trust: Ecology & Spiritual Vision, based on a series of lectures organized by the Prince’s Foundation and the Temenos Academy.

Moderate Muslim, Jewish and Christian representatives called upon their co-religionists and the adherents of all three Abrahamic faiths to stand up to religious extremism and to educate each other, the media and government officials about how those faiths promote teachings of peaceful coexistence.

The latest in our series on various interfaith groups around the world brings us the Comfort Cooperation Circle in Luanda, Angola, who has been doing wonderful work with Leprosy and HIV/AIDS patients in particular.

Dr Rowan Williams has today (Wednesday 11 June) delivered his first major address on inter faith relations since becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. Speaking at the University of Birmingham, Dr Williams challenged some basic assumptions about relations between faith communities and between religions and secular society.

April 30, 2003, CHICAGO - As President Bush prepared his Thursday evening address to announce “the end of the Iraq war,” more than 75 Muslim, Christian, Jewish and other faith leaders from across the United States converged on Chicago to issue a set of principles to lead toward a peaceful future. The summit addressed the humanitarian, spiritual and civil costs of war and its ramifications here at home.

News Briefs: Links to articles elsewhere on the Internet from July, 2003: “Volunteers of Many Faiths Gather to Help Rebuild Sikh Interfaith Center”, “Orthodox Leader Blesses Green Agenda”, “New Tolerance for Faith in Politics”