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Worlds Top Religious Leaders Issue Rare Joint Appeal
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Huffington Post
Posted: June 25th, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/worlds-top-religious-lea...
In a rare move, major religious leaders ― from Pope Francis to the Dalai Lama ― issued a joint appeal Wednesday asking people to follow a simple bit of advice: Make friends with people of other faiths. Our advice is to make friends to followers of all religions, Ayatollah Sayyid Fadhel Al-Milani, one of the U.K.s most senior Shia Muslim clerics, said in a video recording. Personal contact, personal friendship, then we can exchange a deeper level of experience, the Dalai Lama said. Pope Francis chose to speak about his long friendship with the Argentinian Rabbi Abraham Skorka, who also appeared in the video. Make Friends is an initiative of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, an interfaith organization with offices in Israel and the United States. In a press release, organizers said the projects mission is to counter the idea that people view each others religions with distrust or disdain - and to potentially even reduce violence conducted in the name of religion. Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, the Elijah Interfaith Institutes director, said that this project ... affirms the need for friendship between faiths. The 22 leaders involved in the appeal represent a wide spectrum of religious beliefs. Each leader contributed a personal statement specifically for the purposes of this project.
Note: How strange that very few major media picked up on this important and inspiring article.
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