New vehicles for inter-religious dialogue

Today, a growing number of communities has sought to promote interreligious dialogue. I am the Secretary of an alliance between the religions of Southern California. Yesterday we had our meeting in April. As usual, our Alliance members spend a good part of the meeting participated in a religious Exchange. Is it that useful exchange? It seems to be. Yesterday, we found a similarity between the Islamic Koran and the Jewish Torah. We have also faced the need to formulate a not polarizing way to continue the dialogue. We have come to realize that, if we want to be an organization of operation for a significant amount of time, then cannot have a clash of minds at each meeting.

The city that we have our meeting sends a representative to each monthly meeting. Our group has already helped the city to deal with an emotionally charged issue. It was the attempt to establish a Centre for residents suffer from some sort of disorder of metal. Firstly, many of the locals show an attitude of "NIMBY". With the support of our partnership, the Center finally became a reality. It is the first of its kind in the State of California. During the meeting of may of our Alliance, we are visiting this Center.

I look forward to getting the chance to interact with physicians in the Centre. As a former biology major, I have a question I want to answer. I want to know how to compare the needs of the mentally ill to the needs of people with neurological disorders. Don't see any reason why not do a related question from science when I'm in a circle of people with religious mentality. To do so, would be following the dictates of my own chosen faith. That faith has included "harmony of science and religion" among its basic principles.

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Unscheduled dialogue

When I wrote about the monthly meetings of our local interfaith group, I mentioned the planned dialogue. I've shared some of the statements made during a dialogue of this kind. In my last blog article, I talked about a unscheduled dialogue, one that I had with the volunteers of S.A.V.E.S. Today I will comment on that dialogue.

I wanted to focus our debate on something we have in common. I have shared with volunteers from some of my observations on a tour of the Cathedral of our Lady of the angels. Some members of our interfaith group had been through this Cathedral in December 2004. Given is the largest in the County of Los Angeles Catholic Cathedral, he was pretty sure that at least some of the S.A.V.E.S. volunteers had been in that Cathedral.

My personal faith beliefs cause I have great respect for everything that promotes unity in diversity. I felt that you a characteristic of our Lady of the angels's Cathedral to promote such unity. The Cathedral had a number of small niches. Immigrants to Los Angeles could honor its regional santos for worship in one of those niches. I admire that aspect of the Cathedral.

I shared the same observations with the S.A.V.E.S. volunteers. I was surprised to hear one of the volunteers said that he objected to one of the aspects of our Lady of the Cathedral in los Angeles.

Traditionally, as I learned, each Church has the "13 stations of the cross." In each of those places, there is a representation of an event which took place as Christ walked to the place where he was crucified. At least one volunteer group that I spoke with felt that tradition had been ignored or forgotten by the designers of the Cathedral of our Lady of the angels.

Now, I can understand how someone wishing to retain some aspect of a tradition long held. For the same reason, I am sure that had not heard my participant in dialogue about the total demolition of other religious sites. The demolition has in some cases, was ordered by the Government.

If someone feels that his own tradition of faith should be kept, then, I believe that the same person should respect the structures that have a meaning for the members of a different religion. I mention this today, because I learned yesterday that the Iran Government has destroyed a site which held meaning for the Sufis, the members of a sect of Islam.

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Perhaps now the Intercultural dialogue is Crucial for world peace

Our world is at stake. There are different concerns of common interest and that they can be resolved easily. No doubt, the majority of the world's population belongs to different religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism. Really the teachings of these famous religions are quite same and based on peace and harmony, but unfortunately mankind is unable to follow the footsteps of messengers and Santos.

Moreover, religion is not the only thing that becomes the focal point of any crusade, but on the other hand the differences of culture are also doing worse. Has been shown that intercultural communication is the key to success as you can concentrate so much (religion and culture).

Different researchers have made it very clear that many conflicts in history were raised and ended up in the name of great battles. Everything occurred due to religious and cultural differences.

The most visible disaster has never been humanity was the partition of 1947 of the United India. No doubt, Muslims and Hindus live in the India with peace and harmony before that happens the partition. No matter there was some incidents of clashes between Hindus and Muslims. Also when we talk about culture, it was not so difficult to understand that both Nations were fairly close together.

But still the Indians were enjoying the peaceful life. But the unfortunate event of partition and the largest migration was the worst disaster caused by man and everything happened due to misunderstandings and mistrust between the two Nations.

The constant confrontation between Israeli and Palestinian Arabs is also another time bomb that can explode at any time. The main reason is the cultural and religious difference. The need for intercultural communication is the largest need here.

Contrary to this, there are various scholars famous religious that can spread the positive worldwide messages as there are millions of people who are really concerned about this type of messages and respond precisely. Contrary to this culture is the essence of all civilization and an integral part of our daily lives. One cannot be separated the culture as it is deeply rooted in human beings.

Definitely it's culture when talking about cultural differences. We must not forget the importance of their taboos and myths, as we are delighted our traditions slaves. No matter how much we're educated and modernized but still one can not separate from the culture and tradition. Sam in case with religion, as it is very close to our souls and nature. Separates us from both is almost impossible.

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