Multifaith movement of faith leaders and believers call upon the consciences of our political leaders to respect that inherent dignity and end the racial profiling and indiscriminate raids against innocent mothers, fathers and children that continue to terrorize Los Angeles.
CRCC 2025 trends focus on the wildfires affecting Los Angeles County and what will be a multi-year recovery effort. Across the various issues, a central theme emerged: Solidarity.
By his own telling, as a young man Eboo Patel was something of a jerk. Of course, Eboo Patel grew up. And Interfaith Youth Core has grown up, too. In an acknowledgment of that maturity, IFYC was rechristened this year as Interfaith America.
The racist comments made in the conversation between four Los Angeles city leaders are morally reprehensible. Their bigotry reflects a desire to divide and disenfranchise the communities the council members were elected to serve.
In his response to the leaked recording of the exchange, Councilmember Mike Bonin ended his speech at the Los Angeles City Council meeting on October 11 expressing “hope” and “faith” that multiracial coalitions could bring change in Los Angeles.
Chikelue, who established the Liaison Office of the Archdiocese of Abuja, currently serves as executive director of the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace, which supports programming to build and strengthen processes of peace in Nigeria and Africa at large.
Even so, she channelled her family’s legacy into pioneering an interreligious movement of her own: the Gusdurian Network Indonesia (GNI). Founded in 2010, GNI works with grassroots-level activists across Indonesia to promote interreligious reconciliation, active citizenship, democracy, and human rights.
Edited by Richard Flory and Diane Winston
(Routledge, 2021)
That, as Karam tells it, is one of the prime directives of her tenure as RfP Secretary General — to raise up women’s voices within and across religious traditions and see her fellow females not only “take their seat at the table,” but step out in front and lead the way to meaningful change on a range of issues confronting the world today.
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