Last night, during Super Bowl LII, Toyota broadcast a commercial promoting interfaith unity featuring a priest, a rabbi, an imam, a Buddhist monk, and a group of Catholic nuns. The ad proudly proclaimed that, despite our differences, "We're all one team!" Watch the ad below: ...
Get to Know Your Muslim Neighbor!
This week (February 1 - 7) is World Interfaith Harmony Week, a time to honor interfaith work and peace-building. In honor of this week, here is a great interfaith story from Camden, New Jersey: Know Your Muslim Neighbor! At Cordoba House, we believe that getting to know our neighbors of different faiths is very important. In our interfaith program, we engage with the larger New York interfaith community through events, meals, and chances for dialogue. READ MORE (Philly.com) ...
Interfaith Community Comes Together to Support Medical Aid to Africa
A Jewish philanthropist couple from New York is backing a Christian medical mission to Africa that is supported by people from a wide variety of faiths. Last week, a group of priests, rabbis, imams, and ministers joined together to support this effort. Responding to this project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf remarked that such an initiative proves that there is more good than bad in the world, saying, "If the news depicted and reported on the amount of good things going on in the world... it would ...
Interfaith Efforts to Counter Bullying
Last month, interfaith leaders from across the country convened in Washington, D.C. for an anti-bullying summit. Learn more about their findings and what the interfaith community is doing to combat bullying at the link below. All bullying - but particularly faith-based bullying - is a challenge. At Cordoba House, we believe that interfaith education is important for children to help teach kindness, empathy, and understanding. READ MORE (Huffington Post) ...
Imam Feisal and Cordoba House at the L’Chaim Prize
Imam Feisal and Cordoba House took part in the annual L'Chaim Prize presentation in January. Rabbi Erica Gerson and her husband, Mark Gerson, a businessman and entrepreneur, founded the prize and give $500,000 each year to different Christian medical missions selected by a panel of local and American medical professionals, who assess where the money is most badly needed. A group of imams, Protestant ministers, rabbis, Catholic priests, and other people of faith gathered at a restaurant that is ...
