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The Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C., (IFFP) is an interfaith congregation founded by four “founding moms” in 1995.It has grown from a Jewish and Christian Sunday School in a Takoma Park, Maryland home into a community of more than 120 families from Montgomery County, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Annapolis., now one of the largest ...
The ideological groundwork, which led to the eventual establishment of CJCUC in 2008, began to take shape almost 50 years beforehand. In 1964, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the teacher and mentor of CJCUC's Chancellor and Founder, Shlomo Riskin, published an essay entitled "Confrontation" [3] in which he expounded his views on interfaith dialogue and carefully drew out guidelines which ...
The International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) is an umbrella organization of 38 national groups in 32 countries worldwide engaged in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. [1] Founded as a reaction to the Holocaust, many groups of theologians, historians and educators dedicated their efforts to seek Christian–Jewish reconciliation.
An interreligious organization or interfaith organization is an organization that encourages dialogue and cooperation between the world's different religions.In 1893, the Parliament of the Worlds Religions held, in conjunction with the World Colombian Exposition, a conference held in Chicago that is believed to be the first interfaith gathering of notable significance.
Anglican, Free church and Roman Catholic Churches came together in 1938 to form a Christian Council for Refugees following the passing of the Nuremberg Decrees. [7] The council's secretary was W. W. Simpson, a Methodist minister, who would dedicate his life to the improvement of Christian-Jewish relations.
The MICAH coalition, which has been organizing social justice campaigns for 36 years in Milwaukee, represents 42 congregations, including Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Unitarian, Buddhist, Quaker and ...
It was established in 2018 by Interfaith Leader, Cathy Merchant. It is located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Its community members include people from the Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Baha'i, Jewish, Hindu, Humanist, and New Age religious traditions. It meets on the first and third Saturdays of the month year-round. Services start at 10am PDT.
In 2015 the interfaith dialogue participants came to 16 theological points of agreement between Christianity and Islam. [41] The NCC is in dialogue with the National Council of Synagogues, a partnership of Reformed, Conservative, and the Reconstructionist groups in Judaism for the purpose of interfaith affairs. [42]