Thomas Babington Macaulay's Epitaph, composed early in 1813, testified to the impression made by his career: An institution was established in his name in India, called the Henry Martyn Institute: An Interfaith Centre for Reconciliation and Research, Hyderabad, India.
With the help of Peace Direct they have set up six interfaith dialogue centres reaching out to build bridges between the religious groups in Sri Lanka -- Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamil Hindus, Muslim Islamic, and Tamil and Sinhalese Christians.
Interfaith Center on Sundays 4 00 p.m.
Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding Centre for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution George Mason University; Tanenbaum Peacemaker in Action.
A small flyer posted near the school's multi-faith prayer room advertises an interfaith rally in Birmingham city centre on Sunday.
The Jerusalem Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, which promotes interfaith harmony, says it still refrains from taking Jewish children into churches.In the earlier years of the Israeli state Israel's archaeologists excavated Byzantine churches in the Old City's Jewish Quarter, and built visitors' centres to give people an idea of what they were like.
There is therefore no reasonable objection to this Islamic centre, with its mission to promote peace, love, interfaith dialogue and swimming, being built in Park Place.
As one disappointed adviser to the government told me, yet again the state has proven itself to be weak and ineffective when it comes to upholding laws concerning the freedom of religion.And all this in Interfaith Harmony Week, launched amid considerable pomp and ceremony at the Jakarta Convention Centre on the very same morning at the attacks.
Abdul Rauf emphasized that the centre would be open to non-Muslims as well as Muslims and that it would host interfaith programs and events.
His passion for interfaith dialogue cut through long-standing assumptions, won him friends and gave him credibility in the most unlikely of places, said Rev Dr Gwynne Guibord, an Episcopal priest who invited him to sit on the advisory council of the interfaith Guibord Centre-Inside Out.
