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“Representatives from a variety of world faiths discussed the role of religion in addressing global warming and other pressing environmental challenges at a September 18–21 conference on climate stabilization in Washington, D.C. Sharing a panel on “Achieving Intergenerational and International Equity,” speakers from the Catholic, Episcopal, Evangelical, Islamic, Jewish, Mormon, and Presbyterian faiths described the progress their communities are making in tackling climate change.”

Over twenty organizations representing different faiths - including Art of Living, Brahmakumaris, Ramakrishna Mission, Sant Nirankari Mandal, Diocese of Agra and Church of North India, Emmanuel Hospital Association, Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief, World Vision India, Bharat Sokagakkai, Bahai National Spiritual Assembly, and UNESCO Parza and the World Interfaith forum - participated in an inter-faith connectedness on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

For the occasion of World Environment Day (June 5th), I asked Dave
Randle to send an update on the status of the Call to Global Healing. While
the Call is rooted in environmental consciousness, you will find that it
has moved well beyond and has led the Utah URI Cooperation Circle into the
heart of conflict in working to provide aid and support to people in
need.

The Archbishop of Canterbury warns that the price of our continued failure
to protect the earth will be violence and social collapse

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.

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.

A prominent Indian environmentalist and scientist, Dr. Vandana Shiva, is to be the main speaker at a worldwide gathering of Reformed churches scheduled to take place next year in Accra, Ghana.

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.