Religious pluralism

Two Decades of Peacebuilding:

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

URI (United Religions Initiative) is the worlds largest grassroots interfaith peacebuilding network, working in 108 countries and headquartered in San Francisco.

Key Points: 
  • URI (United Religions Initiative) is the worlds largest grassroots interfaith peacebuilding network, working in 108 countries and headquartered in San Francisco.
  • It cultivates peace and justice by engaging people to bridge religious and cultural differences and work together for the good of their communities.
  • Each Cooperation Circle includes at least seven members from at least three religions, spiritual expressions, or Indigenous traditionsincluding atheists and agnostics.
  • Although we may be physically isolated from each other during the pandemic, we can continue to connect soul-to-soul.

In This Christian Seminary, Religious Multiplicity is Welcome

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

One of those changes is the number of people who identify with or follow the teachings of more than one religion.

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  • One of those changes is the number of people who identify with or follow the teachings of more than one religion.
  • United is a Christian graduate school that welcomes people of all beliefs, including those who embrace religious multiplicity.
  • Wheeler hopes that commitment to religious pluralism, including religious multiplicity, will become more commonplace.
  • He argues that religious multiplicity is not an anomaly, heresy or sign of shallowness but an essential feature of spirituality.

U.S. House of Representatives Passes Resolution 274 Condemning the Persecution of Baha'is in Iran

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Thursday, December 13, 2018

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --On December 12, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 274, "Condemning the Government of Iran's state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights.

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  • WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --On December 12, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 274, "Condemning the Government of Iran's state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights.
  • Of the 132 representatives co-sponsoring the resolution, 54 are Republicans and 78 are Democrats.
  • Congressman Deutch added,"The Baha'i community in Iran has long suffered from deep persecution by the government, as detailed by our own U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's Annual Report.
  • For more information about religious persecution and the rights of the Baha'is in Iran, please contact the U.S. Baha'i Office of Public Affairs at 202-833-8990, or visit publicaffairs.bahai.us .

Lebanese Christian Scholar: U.S. and Russia Should Cooperate to Protect Pluralism in Middle East

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Friday, October 5, 2018

From the late 18th century on, Malik explained, Britain, France and Russia were the primary imperial actors intervening in the Middle East, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

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  • From the late 18th century on, Malik explained, Britain, France and Russia were the primary imperial actors intervening in the Middle East, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Russia at first assigned itself the role of protecting the region's Orthodox Christians, but abandoned that goal during its communist period.
  • The latter, Malik noted, enabled the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), "the most lethal development" for religious pluralism in the Middle East.
  • In 2012, Habib Malik contributed to CSI's lecture series on 'The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East'.