Category: Online Interreligious Events

UNGA 78 High-Level Side Event Obstacles to the realization of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) slow progress and the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For instance, SDG 10 (Reduced Inequality) calls on States to “empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, …

Innovative Intra- and Inter-faith Peacebuilding: Pursuing Freedom of Religion or Belief for the realization of the SDG 2030 Agenda and beyond قراءة المزيد »

JTS: MILSTEIN CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE Georgette Bennett will speak about her book, Religicide, coauthored with Jerry White, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which documents the global persecutions of people for their faiths, including the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Bosnian war, and other human rights catastrophes. It amplifies the voices of survivors and offers a blueprint for action, …

RELIGICIDE: CONFRONTING THE ROOTS OF ANTI-RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE قراءة المزيد »

Revd Dr John Goldingay will deliver a special anniversary lecture for the the Psalms in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group Abstract: Theodicy has become a significant topic in the study of the Hebrew Scriptures, and the Psalms are a natural work to approach through this lens. They are often concerned, that is, with the way Israel or individual …

Psalmody as an Alternative to Theodicy قراءة المزيد »

Co-Sponsored by Green Muslims, Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light, Delaware Interfaith Power and Light: A Religious Response to Climate Change INFORMATION

Launching a New Report Today religion is showing its politically ambivalent nature: the war in Ukraine, the rise of aggressive nationalist ideologies in Asia and the West, and the persistence of sectarian conflicts across Africa and the Middle East often appear as religiously expressed conflicts. At the same time, however, a new era of interreligious …

Can Interreligious Engagement Be a Realistic Tool for Diplomacy and Peacebuilding? قراءة المزيد »

BOSTON COLLEGE: Center for Christian-Jewish Learning In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” In her talk, Magda Teter, the author of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning …

Magda Teter, “Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism” قراءة المزيد »

Dr. David Novak will deliver the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning’s 11th Annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations: “Humans as the Image of God: The Bible and John Paul II.” The Bible states that God said “let us make humans [adam] in our image according to our likeness” (Gen. 1:26) It seems there are two aspects …

David Novak, “Humans as the Image of God: The Bible and John Paul II” قراءة المزيد »

Howard Thurman was arguably the most important 20th century African American religious leader before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and is universally acclaimed as the moral anchor to the modern civil rights movement. This minicourse introduces participants to Thurman in the contexts of African American religious and cultural activism. It will explore his relationships with …

Howard Thurman: Moral anchor to the movement قراءة المزيد »

Elijah Interfaith Institute & Friends Across Faiths Initiative invites you to a conversation between Prof. Piotr Sikora and Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein Register for Webinar