SACC chairman attends Rio+20
Dr. Thomas Mathew, Chairman of our South Asia regional body, represented IARF in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janerio from June 20-22, 2012. IARF attended the original 1992 Rio conference, and this was an opportunity for him to represent IARF as one of several religion-based voices on Earth issues. […]
International RFYN Conference 2012, Madurai
Time Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five 7.00am Arrival & Registration Morning Prayer Meditation Yoga Morning Prayer 8.00am Breakfast 9.00am Inaugural Celebration Recalling Yesterday Activities 10.30am Introductory and Ice-breaking Sessions Session Four:- Leaders for the New Century for peace activities Visiting Various Interfaith Centers Madurai, Rameswaram Session Nine:- UN Human […]
Pakistan Chapter – Hiroshima & Nagasaki Peace Exhibition 2012
For Hiroshima Day 2012 (6 August)Sargodha, Pakistan As a contribution to awareness-raising on nuclear issues in the 2012 approach to the annual international remembrance day for the atomic holocaust, our Pakistan chapter launched an awareness-raising exhibition in its home city of Sargodha, titled ‘Never again Hiroshima, Nagasaki never again‘. Guests at the opening, which took place […]
Rakhi festival at Tirunelveli branch
IARF Tirunelveli Branch (Tamilnadu) and Brahma Kumari Raja Yoga center jointly celebrated the Rakhi Festival on 7 August 2012
Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance
Her latest book, The New Religious Intolerance, is a vigorous defence of the religious freedom of minorities in the face of post-9/11 Islamophobia. Guardian interview…
HRET Program, Erode, TamilNadu
Human Rights Education & Training (HRET) @Infant Jesus School, Budapadi, Erode, TamilNadu, India21 – 22 June 2012 Facilitators: Bro. Albert Xaviour and Bro. Britto Report (PDF 2 pages, illustrated)
Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™
Managed and edited by a multifaith team of seminary students and scholars…
Tisa Wenger: historian of American religious freedom
“What I’m trying to do in my book project is a much broader cultural history about who is invoking religious freedom, who controls the definition in public discourse and for what purposes.”
UK Chief Rabbi – Humanitas Lectures 2012
February 2012 Videos: (require Adobe Flash Player) After Babel: A Jewish theology of interfaith Truth & translatability The face of the other: The curious nature of biblical narrative Making Space: Does the Judaic model make sense in Christianity & Islam?