Read this beautiful profile of artist and Cordoba House community member, Behnaz Karjoo, a master of the Islamic art of illumination! READ MORE (Ajam Media Collective) ...
The Vitality of Diversity
World’s Top Religious Leaders Issue a Call: Make Friends!
In a new video, the world's top religious leaders have come together to issue a simple, yet very important interfaith call to action: make friends with people of other faiths! Getting to know members of other religions is one of the best ways individual people have for building peace and growing understanding. As the Dalai Lama says: "Personal contact, personal friendship, then we can exchange a deeper level of experience." READ MORE AND WATCH THE VIDEO (Huffington Post) ...
A Rabbi, Reverend, and Imam Have an Interfaith Plan for Middle America
A rabbi, a reverend, and an imam have a plan to bring interfaith cooperation and education to middle America. Called the Tri-Faith Initiative, the project, launched in 2006 and funded through donations, will involve the construction of three houses of worship side by side in Omaha, Nebraska. Currently, a new synagogue and mosque are already built, and construction crews are readying to build a new church. According to Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, the former senior rabbi at Omaha's Temple Israel, whose ...
Good Samaritan Returns Wallet, Citing Muslim Values
