This audio clip is from the HumanMedia.org website. Comments are from followers of all the world’s major religions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. [audio:http://www.humanmedia.org/catalog/excerpts/ks1-4a_a_human_family_album.mp3]    

The International Association for Religious Freedom includes over 90 member organizations in 27 countries, speaking more than 20 languages and representing faith traditions from all continents. The IARF is the oldest global inter-religious organization and the only one with corporate memberships by constituent religious communities. For more than 100 years...

  From the Axial Age Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 469 pp. Karen Armstrong has written her most important book to date, tracing the origins of our religious inheritance in four centers of the Axial Age: China, India,...

“Muhammad: Prophet of Islam“ Sunday evening, April 1st, 2007 IARF US Chapter Board members attended a special program in Boston hosted by the Boston Dialogue Foundation, the MIT Rumi Club, the Fountain, and the Graduate Rumi Club of NorthEastern University. We were treated to a delicious dinner and great conversation...

Our member group the  IALRW is one of the oldest international women’s organizations in the world. It was convened in Berlin in 1910 and since that time has provided a link between liberal religious women throughout the world. It serves to promote friendship and cooperation between like-minded women and is a...

by Stuart M. Matlins This easy-to-use fourth edition is updated and revised with the latest membership statistics on the various faith traditions, an expanded glossary of religious terms and an all-new section on popular religious symbols. It also includes the “Everything You Need to Know Before You Go” checklist. This...

The idea to host an interfaith dinner group for lay people in our community of Melrose, MA came about after learning about the “circle groups” at IARF (International Association for Religious Freedom) Congresses. These groups are comprised of individuals of different religions, who meet together during the Congress. The purpose...

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