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Interfaith and Understanding by Hilary Canto

24 Jul 2020
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WRN Guest

Many question whether interfaith efforts are relevant or effective given the level of conflict we see around the globe. However this conflict is the very reason interfaith dialogue and connection is more...

Religious News From Around the Web, Jan 6th 2020

06 Jan 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Nine Years for Pastor, Armed Church Security? Interfaith Award, Truth or Guns? Sikhs Help in Fires, Evangelicals Polled, Falun Gong “Cult” Chinese Sentence Christian Pastor to Nine Years in Prison Charged...

WRN News From the Web: Mosque Shelters Students, Atheists Not Church, US Sanctions China over Uighurs, Rohingyas Denied Education, Dublin’s Covert Church, Iran Suppressing Bahá’ís, SMU Minus Methodist?, African Churches Use Scientology

09 Dec 2019
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WRN Editorial Staff

Wisconsin Students Shelter in Mosque During School Attack About 100 high school students sheltered in a mosque across the street from their Oshkosh West High School in Wisconsin when a student stabbed...

Interfaith Council Takes Up Human Rights

01 Oct 2019
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Wayne Edward Hanson

Idi Amin “The Butcher of Uganda” seized power in 1971 and until he was ousted in 1979, his regime murdered an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 political dissidents and members of various ethnic groups....

America’s Growing Interfaith Infrastructure

16 Sep 2019
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WRN Editorial Staff

In Columbia, South Carolina, Interfaith Partners regularly brings together for discussion Christians and Jews, Hindus and Muslims, Buddhists and Bahá’ís. Members visit one another’s places of worship,...

Multi-City Interfaith March planned to counteract religious violence

10 Sep 2019
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WRN Editorial Staff

LOS ANGELES — In the wake of acts of violence in places of worship, local religious leaders plan a showing of solidarity among people of diverse faith traditions. Loyola Marymount University Professor...

‘Work Together or Fail:’ Muslim Woman Chosen as Leader at International Interfaith Gathering

23 Aug 2019
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Nathan Glover

10th Religions for Peace World Assembly held in Germany this week On Tuesday (August 20), the asked religious groups to act on issues which are geopolitical and ended the gathering with a "statement...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg Hires Rev. Shawna Foster as Faith Outreach Director

14 Aug 2019
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Derek Welch

Rev. Shawna Foster is a millennial member of the LGBT community , making it clear that he is making religion a focal point of his bid for office. In a nation where most people identify as religious...

Interfaith Vigils Held in the Wake of NZ Church Shootings

19 Mar 2019
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Elisa Meyer

The vigils saw attendance from both Jews and Christians. The man then handed the flowers to a worshiper, saying the roses were his expression of sympathy which arose from the loss of 50 lives due to a terrorist...

Pope Francis’ Historic Trip to the UAE: Working Toward Peace and Tolerance Between Islam and Christianity

05 Feb 2019
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Gary Nguyen

For the first time, Roman Catholic Church leader Pope Francis visits Arabian Peninsula The Roman Catholic Church's leader visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as part of the plan to encourage...