In Oregon, Jewish and Muslim communities are coming together to build bridges of interfaith understanding, part of the larger interfaith movement happening across the U.S., which Cordoba House is proud to be a part of!
Celebrating Interfaith Unity in Upstate New York
February 1 – 7 is World Interfaith Harmony Week. Each year, the interfaith community in Upstate New York comes together for an assembly. This year’s assembly, which brought together over 400 representatives of various faith groups, was on the theme “Voices in Harmony.” Learn more about this yearly event, and this year’s gathering, at the link below.
Interfaith Super Bowl Ad Proclaims “We’re All One Team”
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.
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 vastly outnumber the news that is discordant.”
