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Brother Wayne Teasdale, Christian mystic, monk, and interfaith activist,
passed away on October 20, 2004 after struggling with cancer. He was 59.

Dr. Wolfgang Fischer writes: "More and more people perceive the urgent necessity to intensify a broad
inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue. Urgently we do need a
focussing and mediating access to the topic violence. An access which
transcends traditional mental borders will definitely expose an
overwhelming spirit of love beyond any dogma and vitalize the intellectual
and spiritual world of ideas. Such a vitalization will lead to a kind of
re-birthing of human existence — to an existence beyond violence."

Report and summary from a recent workshop on the Millennium Development
Goals provided by the United Religions Intitiative at the United Nations
Cooperation Circle.

Taiwan's pioneering Museum of World Religions recently hosted a
seminar on the Spiritual and Ecological Signficance of Water. A short report
on the seminar and the museum follows.

The Interfaith Alliance Foundation and Walter Cronkite announced in
October the recipients of the 2004 Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom
Award: Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Bill Moyers, and Judith Davidson
Moyers.

In October, Faith & Values Media, The National Conference for
Community and Justice, and the Interfaith Youth Core launched CampusQuest, in
which participants are invited to join a national youth movement for
interfaith awareness by creating a CampusQuest in their own
communities.

Interfaith minister Susanna Stefanachi Macomb writes about the growing
trend of interfaith, intercultural and interracial families in the United
States

We review Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on the Global
Economy, a small work aiming to stimulate classroom discussion on the
ethics of the modern global economy. Featuring African, Hindu, Buddhist,
Confucian, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives, the book is a worthy
and readable academic exploration of the deleterious ramifications of market
systems unchecked by religio-ethical norms.

Even as continued violence has stalled efforts to bring food aid to
desperate refugees, the U.N. has failed to enact meaningful measures to reign
in the Sudanese government. This month's breakthrough talks between the
government and southern rebels must be applauded; nevertheless, the
government's failure to disarm local militias has shown the potentially
duplicitous nature of their negotiations. While religious responses to the
warfare have been relatively few and far between, religious groups can play a
strong role in agitating for greater action, as seen in the following
article.