April 24, 2013
The United Nations Alliance of Civilations and the International Organization for Migration are announcing 2013′s PluralPlus Youth Video Festival contest open to ages nine through 25 on the topics of migration, diversity and social inclusion. Instruction for entries due June 30, 2013 is found on the Plural+ site.
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April 10, 2013
By Marcus Braybrooke for The Interfaith Observer
The Early Years of the Interfaith Movement
The legacy of the 1893 World Parliament of Religions did not live up to the high hopes of its organizers. The dream of a new era of universal peace too soon became the bloody nightmare of twentieth century battlefields and genocide.
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The 2003 Iranian Nobel Laureate said that the main obstacle for post-revolutionary Arab women is a “patriarchal culture” that imposes a false interpretation on Islam.
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)– On the sideline of an April 2 conference hosted by Columbia University Law School, Shirin Ebadi, who in 2003 became the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel...
March 28, 2013
A Virtual Community Empowering Grassroots Interfaith Communities
By Valarie Kaur for The Interfaith Observer
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March 13, 2013
by Kathe Schaffe
Women’s Task Force, Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
Kathe Schaffe, Parliament Women’s Task Force/Women of Spirit and Faith at the United Nations...