At the Multi-faith Event: How Good Must I Be? The Consequences of My
Choices there
will be tables in the lobby to learn about the religions represented at the
event. The religions represented are: Baha'i,
Evangelical Christian, Hindu, Islam, and Judaism. Attendees of the event can browse
the information before or after the event. After the event the speakers will be
at the tables to answer questions and discuss their religions.
These organizations will have information tables at the
event.
The mission of the Indiana
Center for Middle East Peace is to promote critical awareness of issues
that impact a just peace in the Middle East and to facilitate intercultural and
interfaith awareness both locally and globally. We host monthly lectures
and symposia with local, national, and international speakers, as well as
sponsor study and solidarity tours to Israel and Palestine where we meet with
Jews, Christians, and Muslims who are working for a non-violent, just peace.
Taylor University
Office of Global Engagement - The Office of Global Engagement exists to
encourage and facilitate global engagement within the student body, to connect
and streamline existing campus organizations working on globally-focused
initiatives, and to incorporate a global mindset into the Taylor Student
Organization.
IPC - The purpose
of the Interfaith Peace Cabinet of Taylor
Student Organization is to engage the campus community in loving, peaceful
relationships with persons of other faiths, especially in the central Indiana
region. This is accomplished through
interfaith dialogue, service, partnership and religious education.
Upcoming event hosted
by Office of Global Engagement and IPC
Tuesday, April 17,
2012, 7:00 p.m.
An Interfaith Panel: Love Thy Neighbor
Moderator: Ramona
Fisher, Canterbury School
Rediger
Chapel/Auditorium
Huntington
University: With the conviction that all truth is God’s truth, Huntington
University exists to carry out the mission of Christ in higher education.
Students are educated in the liberal arts and their chosen academic
disciplines, always seeking to examine the relationship between the disciplines
and God’s revelation in Jesus Christ. We welcome students of all faiths who are
willing to be part of our learning community.
Regionally, Huntington University is a major partner in the
Harmony Initiative. The organization is dedicated to implementing the City of
Huntington’s mission statement, which recognizes that residents’ “ethnic,
economic, and religious diversity provides the strength that holds our
community together” and declares Huntington, Indiana to be “a community of
civility and inclusion, where diversity is honored and differences are
respected.”
Since 1972 Friends of
the Third World have been empowering people all over the world to overcome
poverty and prime the fair trade markets for the growing demand for economic
justice. In addition to job-training for needy people in Fort Wayne, the
house of the Friends of the Third World helps sell products made by exceptional
enterprising groups in the Third World, including the Bombolulu Workshop for
the Handicapped in Mombasa, Kenya, as well as trying to help Nicaraguan Medical
Aid. Friends of the Third World continues to work for economic justice
through ongoing fair trade development for crafts, coffee, tea and other
products made by millions of people escaping the grip of
poverty.
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