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Globally Respected Muslim Scholar Receives Human Dignity Award from American Jewish Committee

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Sunday, October 1, 2023
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NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) has presented its prestigious Human Dignity Award to Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, one of the world's most respected Islamic scholars and a champion of religious freedom, peace, and enhancing Muslim-Jewish relations.

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  • NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) has presented its prestigious Human Dignity Award to Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, one of the world's most respected Islamic scholars and a champion of religious freedom, peace, and enhancing Muslim-Jewish relations.
  • "His counsel and wisdom are sought by religious and political leaders alike, and his courage has pushed the ties between the Jewish and Muslim worlds dramatically forward."
  • AJC's Human Dignity Award is a facsimile leaf of a medieval copy of Maimonides' Introduction to the Mishnah in a lavishly illuminated edition.
  • Shaykh Bin Bayyah is just the second recipient of the AJC Human Dignity Award.

Globally Respected Muslim Scholar Receives Human Dignity Award from American Jewish Committee

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Sunday, October 1, 2023
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NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) has presented its prestigious Human Dignity Award to Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, one of the world's most respected Islamic scholars and a champion of religious freedom, peace, and enhancing Muslim-Jewish relations.

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  • NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) has presented its prestigious Human Dignity Award to Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, one of the world's most respected Islamic scholars and a champion of religious freedom, peace, and enhancing Muslim-Jewish relations.
  • "His counsel and wisdom are sought by religious and political leaders alike, and his courage has pushed the ties between the Jewish and Muslim worlds dramatically forward."
  • AJC's Human Dignity Award is a facsimile leaf of a medieval copy of Maimonides' Introduction to the Mishnah in a lavishly illuminated edition.
  • Shaykh Bin Bayyah is just the second recipient of the AJC Human Dignity Award.

Global religious leaders promote climate action during UN climate conference COP 27

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Monday, November 14, 2022
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dozens of religious leaders, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists from Egypt, the USA, Israel, India, Spain and Great Britain gathered Sunday, November 13th .22 at the base of Parliament Hill in London and at the same time in Sharm el-Sheikh, Jerusalem, and other places around the world in an excited call to the leaders around the world to act for climate repentance and to act according to the ten universal principles on climate, this is in the midst of the UN conference being held in Sharm el -Sheikh.

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  • For the first time, a Climate Repentance Ceremony, calling for people to repent and change people's destructive lifestyles and systems in order to save the planet.
  • The climate repentance ceremony was supposed to take place at Mount Sinai as part of the COP-27 climate conference taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, part of the Sinai Peninsula and only 200 km from Mount Sinai.
  • Hopefully, events will encourage and empower religious communities in the world to mitigate climate change caused by humans, and promote the use ofrenewable energy.
  • The Ten Principles for Climate Repentance (mini versions) are:
    In addition, many houses of worship around the world joined together today with prayer and study focused on climate action to protect our environment.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Receives the 2019 ECOS® Environmental Award

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
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CYPRESS, Calif., Aug. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, on Friday received the 2019 ECOS Award for exceptional leadership in environmental protection.

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  • CYPRESS, Calif., Aug. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, on Friday received the 2019 ECOS Award for exceptional leadership in environmental protection.
  • The Ecumenical Patriarch received the prestigious award in honor of his lifetime of environmental advocacy and global influence on environmental protection.
  • Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has played a critical role in environmental advocacy in his role as the spiritual leader of the second-largest Christian faith, proclaiming the importance of spiritual values in determining environmental ethics and actions.
  • The 2019 ECOS Environmental Award was presented to the Ecumenical Patriarch at his headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday by Earth Friendly Products' President and CEO Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks ( https://youtu.be/yvhFqpKfLHc ).