Keywords: Parliament Of The World's Religions
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 12 March 2010
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 12 February 2010
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INFORMATION
- Herman Roborgh
- 05 January 2010
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Other religions need not be a threat. As the Dalai Lama said, the problems facing the world are related to
the ego and the emotions. And all the religious traditions of the world provide a path
to confront one's selfishness and emotional struggles.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 December 2009
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RELIGION
- Yannick Thoraval
- 14 December 2009
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When the Dalai Lama appeared, people flocked to
the stage, mobile phone cameras in hand, so
they too could own a piece of the Dalai Lama. As a measure of our cultural values, it is interesting to consider that the Dalai Lama has become a commodity.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Leonel Narvaez
- 04 December 2009
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Following decades of socio-political conflict in Colombia, we have come to understand that a poor person with anger is
twice poor; that
forgiveness is a powerful way of transforming ungrateful memories into
new languages; that in the
face of irrational violence, victims must offer the
irrationality of forgiveness.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 04 December 2009
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Religious bigotry, fanaticism, and associated violence are still very much with us. A central ethos of the Parliament of Religions is to honour, preserve and seek to
understand the particularities of different faiths rather than try to
make them all the same.
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RELIGION
- Katherine Marshall
- 04 December 2009
There's as much cynicism as hope around such 'Kumbaya'
happenings as the Parliament of Religions. And the male domination at official interfaith gatherings turns many off.
The goals for interfaith meetings, however, are ambitious and right at the heart of today's global agendas.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 06 November 2009
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Progressive Christian activist Jim Wallis is one of Barack Obama's key advisors on religious and ethical issues. He has been a key proponent of Obama's controversial health care reform legislation, which has raised the ire of some conservative Christians.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 March 2009
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When asked if America was winning the war in Afghanistan, Obama answered: 'No'. His call for dialogue with the Taliban reflects a form of inter-religious dialogue that goes beyond a lovey-dovey, 'underneath we're all the same' approach.
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RELIGION
- Constant Mews
- 05 February 2009
Obama's inaugural address evoked another great speech. In Chicago in 1893 Swami Vivekananda called for an end to 'sectarianism, bigotry, and
its horrible descendant, fanaticism'. Vivekananda's vision was never realised.
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