Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house and his mother's next door (assessed value of both: $139,000) presented the two buildings to the college as a community house. It will serve primarily as a home for students' Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clubs and will be called the Sara Delano Roosevelt Interfaith House...
...until an interdenominational Church Damages Commission has approved the location. So reported the Rev. Edgar Chandler of Boston, just back from two months in war-torn England on behalf of the Congregational and Christian Church and World Council of Churches. Already the Church Damages Commission has begun blueprints for interfaith regional planning after the war. Insurance money collected on damages to many old churches in declining neighborhoods will be used to build new churches in growing suburbs, distributing the parishes of different denominations so that no section will have too many...
Head of the commission, which was set up by the Federal Council of Churches with the help of seven other interfaith agencies, is John Foster Dulles, world-renowned lawyer, grandson of a Secretary of State, son of a Presbyterian minister, veteran of almost every peace parley since the 1907 Hague Conference. No churchgoer himself, he never thought to blame the failure of all the peace conferences he attended on lack of Christianity until he set out to draft a practical set of principles on which a peace conference might succeed. To his surprise, he found them an echo of Christianity...
...Baldwin continued to back Hillel until his death last summer. And last week, to honor its good Congregationalist friend, Hillel founded the Edward Chauncey Baldwin Memorial Award, a $300 college fellowship to reward student leadership in promoting interfaith good will at the University of Illinois. Annual nominations will be made by the eight other undergraduate religious societies on the campus...
...Made Episcopalians' professions of interfaith unity effective by voting to take full membership in the Federal Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches...