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SPECIAL INVITATION from Bishop William Swing, URI Founder and President |
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
Religiously motivated violence, throughout the world, has dramatically changed life in the 21st century. Airline passengers. Families mourning their dead. Schools that teach hate and mayhem. National debts out of control, environmental degradation, the horrors of genocide—all of these and more testify to the reality of religiously motivated violence globally at this time.
What can be done to change this reality? Religions can’t be bombed into making changes. Diplomacy can be started with religious hierarchs but typically centuries are required to reach an agreement. The one immediate hope for change is to engage grassroots people of the world’s religions, indigenous traditions and spiritual expressions in peacemaking at local levels.
Religious peacemaking at a local level is in everyone’s self-interest.
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Idea of the Month - December - Reflection and Dialogue Activity for Peace |
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Monday, 04 December 2006 |
"Circles of Ten, Women for World Peace" envisions a world Community whose women, men and children are actively living in peace. Their mission is to make visible the worldwide culture of peace by gathering in circles to identify what peace means to them and to translate that vision into acts of courageous peacemaking in their personal lives, their communities and their world.
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Idea of the Month - November 2006 - Action to Connect Interfaith Work with Civic Recognition |
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
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Action to Connect Interfaith Work with Civic Recognition
Many thanks to The Abrahamic Reunion CC for this superb idea. It provides a Proclamation to be issued by legal representatives of a city, town, or village.
The Abrahamic Reunion, a URI Cooperation Circle (CC) in the Middle East and North Africa region, includes a support network in the United States and in several other locations across the globe. Recently this CC held a 12-hour poetry and music marathon as a fundraiser.
In support of this effort, they asked the City of Sarasota,Florida, to issue a Proclamation in support of global interfaith peace efforts, specifically citing the Abrahamic Reunion.
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Bishop Swing Addresses UN High Level Conference on Interfaith Cooperation |
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Monday, 16 October 2006 |
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United Nations, New York. Rt. Rev. William E. Swing addresses the High Level Conference on Interfaith Cooperation at the United Nations on the
International Day of Peace, September 21, 2006.
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newspaper reader has to be struck by the rise in religiously motivated
violence. An editorial page cartoon or a scholarly papal lecture can
have the potential of setting off incendiary responses. Burning houses
of prayer might be the charge that explodes a country into civil war.
Madrid, London, New York – these cities mentioned together bring to
mind the fact of the worldwide religion-inspired terror. Clearly there
is an acceleration of individuals across the world participating in
violent inter-religious and intra-religious clashes.
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