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CNN has posted a history of bias against Sikhs - more reason for people to learn about religions before they attack anyone:...
Sikh temple shooting unfolding, learn about Sikhism here: http://t.co/A0ltLLIm
Sikh temple shooting unfolding, learn about Sikhism here: http://t.co/l3KrAJZf
Hackers group Anonymous takes down Vatican website: http://t.co/B6lbGAVp
WGN-TV calls doomsday prophecies "an illusion": http://t.co/mv8Gzyw7
RT @graceishuman: Really,? Asking people JUST LEAVING the service how they felt about it? Tacky, tacky, inappropriate
Whitney Houston's funeral service really took the world to church. Love Pastor Winans' honesty, very moving.
#teacher ? Here are appropriate responses to situations with your Jehovah's Witness student: http://t.co/A6UfqcgH
#Teachers: Want to know why your Jehovah's Witness student won't say the pledge and how to respond? http://t.co/EIdlgDwW
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Leaders from around the world met in New York on Wednesday and Thursday as part of a United Nations interfaith meeting.
They sought to bridge the gap between faiths, particularly in an age of “extremists.”
In particular, attendants called for:
- Celebration of religious differences
- Peaceful means of addressing problems without resorting to violence
- A decade for interreligious dialogue (a resolution from Philippines’ President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo)
- More peace talks in Israel
- A culture of tolerance
Attendees included:
- President Bush
- Israeli President Shimon Peres
- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman
- Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Salam Fayyad
- Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai
- A spokesman for the pope
- Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Egypt, Mohammad Tantawy
- And more
President Karzai stated,
“Conflict did not stem from religion, but the pursuit of narrow political objectives by certain adherents of religions or political ideologies.”
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