Put your gently used business wear to good use MLK Day clothing drive in support of Friendship Place The SGI-USA Washington DC Buddhist Culture Center and the Washington National Cathedral are partnering again this year to help homeless families in our area. When is it? Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, January 19, 2015 From 8 AM until 2 PM What should I
Read moreHarvard University: Annual Pluralism Project Photo Contest Dear Friends, We invite you to participate in our fourth annual Pluralism Project Photo Contest. We are looking for high-resolution digital images that convey the vibrancy of religious diversity and interreligious encounter in the USA. We are particularly interested in images in the following categories: Religious practices and rituals Religious centers, including festivals,
Read moreGlobal, Multi-Faith Campaign Grows as World Leaders Meet As international leaders meet for major climate negotiations in Lima, Peru, religious and spiritual leaders internationally are holding candle and solar-lantern lit vigils, inviting people from diverse backgrounds to show their concern about climate change. Building on the momentum from September’s People’s Climate March where they mobilized tens of thousands of participants,
Read moreWhose freedom is superior? That of the individual practising a religion – or that of the religious heads? In a diverse society like India, the individual’s freedom and the freedom of religion keep clashing all the time. A classic example is the Shah Bano case of the 1980s, where the Supreme Court awarded maintenance to a divorced Muslim wife but
Read moreInternational Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) 34th World Congress August 24-27 2014 Birmingham, England Venue: University of Birmingham A report by -Ruzbeh Hodiwala V. Endorsing the concern for religious freedom and Human Rights in this digital age, the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) organized its 34th World Congress with the theme “Challenges for Religious Freedom in the Digital Era.”
Read moreAs the Sikh community in Oak Creek, Wisconsin prepares for Sunday prayers, a deadly hate attack shatters their lives, but not their resilience. After six worshipers are killed by a white supremacist, the local community finds inspiration in the Sikh tradition of forgiveness and faith. Lieutenant Murphy, shot 15 times in the attack, joins the mayor and police as they forge new bonds with the Sikh
Read moreFor most people in the West, the swastika remains inextricably linked to the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the last century. But there have been calls to reclaim the symbol from its Nazi links and restore its origin as an ancient symbol signalling good luck. Many people find the idea deeply offensive. So can these two views ever be
Read moreIn a small Kolkata street named after the Jewish David Ezra, Aziz-mian deftly worked the manual flatbed machine printing the Diwali ‘ank’ of a Gujarati weekly owned and edited by a Parsi, Eduljee Kanga, who had chosen this Hindu festival over his own new year for the bumper annual. The typesetters were Bihari. Eduljee had to teach their migrant fathers
Read moreDear Zarathushtis Here is a great opportunity for the Zarathushtis of North America as well around the world to participate in this 2015 Parliament of World Religions being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, in October 2015 as noted below. Please share this email with your members, friends, families, adults, seniors, young adults and encourage them to participate in this
Read moreRegister now for a limited early bird rate! THE 2015 PARLIAMENT WILL BE IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH IN OCTOBER 2015 Salt Lake City, USA – Sept 9, 2014 – The Parliament of the World’s Religions announced today that it will bring the world’s largest and most historic interfaith gathering to Salt Lake City in October 2015, marking its return
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