United Nations secretary general and Nobel peace prize winner Kofi Annan
opened Trinity Institute's 35th national conference May 2 to a capacity
crowd at New York's Trinity Church, Wall Street, speaking on the notion
of evil in the contemporary world and highlighting the importance of
faith in daily life.
Regular InterfaithNews.Net readers will recognize this year's winner of
the Niwano Peace Prize: the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative of
Uganda, a United Religions Initiative Cooperation Circle working to end
armed conflict.
Beginning June 27, 2004, teens from several conflict-ridden areas gathered for a program
called Face to Face/Faith to Faith. The program, which runs through July 12 in
New York City, seeks to establish the a groundwork for positive inter-faith interaction
and resolution of religiously-motivated conflict. Face to Face is sponsored by
the Auburn Theological Seminary of New York and Seeking Common Ground from Denver.
Dr. Bruce B. Lawrence, a professor or religion at Duke University, writes of
the need to shift the Western mindset on Islam. In doing so he critiques both Christian
and Muslim perceptions of each other, laying out his own vision for how the religions
can interact more harmoniously in the future. The article concludes with a response
from an American Muslim and Dr. Lawrence's reply.
Reacting to religious fanaticism and the challenges of advancing and sustaining a more equitable civilization, a global interfaith movement has sprung from the grassroots of religion and spirituality. InterfaithNews.Net (INN) seeks to chronicle this movement by focusing primarily on positive interfaith and religious news, events, and resources.
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