InterFaith Settlement Organisation Plan

 

1.  History of Organisation

 

i.  InterFaith Movement

 

This InterFaith Settlement is a comparatively recent extension of the contemporary InterFaith Movement.  The contemporary InterFaith Movement is conventionally considered to have begun more than one hundred years ago through the convening of the first Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, Illinois.  Since this initial InterFaith meeting, numerous organisations and conferences have emerged to facilitate continuing dialogue and interaction between religious leaders and organisations from different religious traditions and to improve mutual tolerance, mutual understanding, mutual wellbeing, and mutual amicability amongst the respective adherents of these religious traditions. 

Some of the earliest established, and continuing, InterFaith Institutions include the International Association for Religious Freedom (Oxford, England), www.iarf.net, and the World Congress of Faiths (London, England), www.WorldFaiths.org.  Additional InterFaith Institutions of note include the World Conference of Religions for Peace (New York, New York), www.wcrp.org, the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions (Chicago, Illinois), www.cpwr.org, and the United Religions Initiative (San Francisco, California), www.uri.org.  This InterFaith Movement involves the international community of all continents and adherents of the five predominant Faiths of Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as adherents of additional Faiths including Sikhism and the Baha’i.

 

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