Varied Views: Religious Worlds Merge

April 16, 2007

Author: Leigh Bell

Source: Tulsa World

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070416_238_A1_hTour50405

Tour exposes area youths to different churches

The two 17-year-old girls sat side by side but appeared very different.

Alison Eddington is fair-skinned with brown wavy hair past her shoulders. She wore a tight-fitting T-shirt and a beaded skirt.

Alison is Mormon.

Nour Habib has deep, dark eyes. Her hair was covered by a chocolate-brown scarf that's slightly darker than her caramel skin.

Nour is Muslim.

On Sunday, their cultural and religious worlds merged at the Youth Interfaith Tour, a 25-year-old event organized by the Oklahoma Conference for Community and Justice to expose Tulsa-area teenagers to different faiths.