Word: interfaith
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...night in Memorial Hall in remembrance of the victims of last month’s earthquake in South Asia. Attendees were greeted by a large screen with a slide show of the devastation in Kashmir, including the individual faces of those affected by the earthquake. The service was an interfaith gathering with readings from the sacred traditions of the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, which were followed by a song and speakers. Asim Ijaz Khwaja, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was one of the speakers at the event. Khwaja expressed concern...
...favor peace and other elements. We must try to find the best elements to help." The response's nuance may not endear him to the Muslim group he intends to visit in Germany, but his notion of the Catholic Church "helping" moderate Islam was a telling excursion beyond typical interfaith vocabulary into the language of realpolitik. What sort of help Benedict might offer remains to be seen...
...citizens," says the handbook. (Tuition ranges from $4,500 to $4,900.) The school has a mainstream curriculum and a wholesome range of activities: school newspaper, science-fair club, volleyball, math league, spelling bees. The boys'varsity basketball team won the championship trophy in the Chicago Unity league, an interfaith conference. Students take part in community-service outings with other private schools, bag food twice a month for two homeless shelters in Chicago's inner city and work as volunteer nurse's aides at the local hospital...
...settled on “Lux Aeterna,” a section from the “Requiem Mass.” Although Wiprud’s chosen text is traditionally Christian, he says it has interfaith qualities...
...Republic devotes a cover article to hailing the "conservatism of doubt." For the less bookish, Hollywood spends $130 million on a Crusader epic in which the heroes are 12th century multiculturalists, Christian and Muslim, who want nothing more than love, peace and interfaith understanding. (Such people inhabit 21st century Hollywood, but as columnist John Podhoretz points out, they were nowhere to be seen in 12th century Jerusalem...