Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Where interfaith alliances were once viewed as sort of poor stepchildren to mainstream denominations, such groups find themselves flooded with interest and inquiries from people whose hope for a peaceful outcome rests in cross-cultural religious understanding. A Judaism and World Religions program at Valley Beth Shalom, a conservative synagogue in Sherman Oaks, Calif., drew 1,400 people to hear a speaker on Buddhism. "I hear people say, 'Isn't it wonderful how we're coming together as a nation?'" observes the Rev. Don Sperber, pastor of the 700-member Grace United Methodist Church in Denver. "I'm troubled when...
...affiliation to the Bahai faith which supports Bahai centers with prayer rooms where people of all faiths are welcome to pray. Co-Masters Sandra Nadaff 75 and Leigh Hafrey 73 were supportive, as were many of the resident tutors when Ashraf expressed her interest in creating a similar interfaith area at Mather...
With space already at a premium, progress in finding a spot for the Meditation Room was slower than Ashraf had hoped. However, after the events of Sept. 11 highlighted how valuable an interfaith spiritual space would be, the meditation room became a higher house priority and Ashraf secured a spot. Even so, with decorating decisions still to be made, the room is not slated to open until reading period in January. This is actually good timing, says Ashraf, because students will be able to access the meditation room during their times of greatest stress...
...aftermath of Sept. 11, as Americans turned to churches, mosques and synagogues in record numbers, some religious leaders turned to one another in what amounted to a big group hug. One of those interfaith friendships has now unraveled. Three weeks after kneeling in prayer with Jewish leaders, Sheik Muhammad Gemeaha, a scholar with Cairo's prominent al-Azhar University and the leader of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City, was quoted on an Arabic-language website saying that Jews carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and that Jewish doctors were poisoning Muslim children in U.S. hospitals. Next...
...There are some natural points of interfaith with the Haitian groups and the African-American groups on campus,” Abdul-Basser says. “[With] some of the events that are coming up, it’s definitely in HIS’s interest to cooperate with other groups...