Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friendship, comprehension and mutual aid" is the high-minded goal of France's Fraternity of Abraham - quite possibly the world's only interfaith organization that includes Moslems and Jews as equal partners with Christians...
...fraternity is an outgrowth of an interfaith meeting in Paris last spring, organized by Jesuit Theologian Jean Daniélou and Father Michel Hayek of Lebanon, lecturer on Christian-Moslem relations. To their delight, both Moslems and Jews accepted invitations to attend. "The discussion was often hot," Hayek recalls, "but no one threw any chairs." A series of subsequent discussions proved so rewarding that three months ago the leaders formed the Fraternity of Abraham-named after the Old Testament prophet revered by all three religions...
...archconservative hierarchy has long been at odds with Athenagoras, largely because of his interest in healing Orthodoxy's centuries-old breach with Rome. Unlike the retired Chrysostomos, the new primate is an active ecumenist who has been a delegate for the church of Greece at several interfaith councils. Reflecting what may well become a new era of good feeling in Mediterranean Orthodoxy, Athenagoras last week sent his senior bishop, Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon, to represent him at the enthronement. Said Meliton, as he presented the new primate with a gold-handled pastoral staff: "It is high time that...
...congregation -it numbers only 75-he has long been known for pioneering social work in his poverty-ridden region deep in the Cumberland Mountains. He helped set up health clinics and organize farm cooperatives, as far back as 1940 sponsored some of the South's first interracial, interfaith work camps. The son of a Kentucky tenant farmer and a graduate of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Smathers attributed his election* to his church's "recognition of those who serve in the difficult places of the world among the forgotten." As for Christian witness, Smathers says: "My concept of evangelism...
...papers wins out. In Needham, Mass., for example, after students at the town's high school founded the Razir, it quickly proved so worthy that officials let it circulate freely on campus. Coming up from underground, the paper is now sponsored by the city's Interfaith Youth Council, has a local Congregational minister as its adviser...