Interfaith

Do Interfaith Skills Help Healthcare Workers Provide Better Patient Care?

March 11, 2024

 

Across the United States, the landscape of religion and spirituality is changing. Reflected in the patient populations, US healthcare facilities are tasked with providing care to a religiously diverse country. Healthcare professionals skilled in interfaith leadership have taken the lead in reshaping the landscape of patient care to create a more inclusive and understanding healthcare environment.   

 

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Interfaith Council Looking To Solidify ‘Communities of Compassion’ Identity

March 5, 2024

Newtown Interfaith Council (NIC) discussed wanting to solidify the identity for its new “Communities of Compassion” initiative at its February 24 meeting.

Dr John Woodall, alongside Newtown Congregational Church Pastor Matt Crebbin and Love Has a Home Here Founder Bill Donaldson, led discussions with other NIC members about the initiative after its first session at Sticks and Stones Farm in February.

While they celebrated getting “Communities of Compassion” off the ground by hosting the first session, the council hopes to find a name that they feel better fits the...

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Georgia bill aims to protect religious liberty. Opponents say it’s a license to discriminate

February 22, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers are revisiting a nearly decade-old fight over whether the state needs to protect religious rights from being trampled by state and local governments in a measure opponents say would provide a legal shield for people and groups to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in the name of religion.

That religious protection bill resurfaced Thursday eight years after lawmakers passed a different version of the measure. Then-Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, vetoed it in 2016 under pressure from Georgia’s business community, who said they feared it would...

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Four major nonprofits team up to foster connection and service across the country

February 22, 2024

Catholic Charities USA, Habitat for Humanity International, Interfaith America and YMCA of the USA officially launch the Team Up Project, a collective commitment to bridge building

CHICAGO — To counteract rising polarization, horrifying acts of violence fueled by hate, increasing feelings of loneliness, and growing ideological rifts across the nation, Catholic Charities USA, ...

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Interfaith group addresses food insecurity issue throughout the Midlands

February 26, 2024

 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - An organization called More Justice, made up of more than 25 interfaith leaders from across the Midlands, is rallying their congregations to raise awareness of issues of food insecurity, gun violence and affordable housing.

More Justice formed research groups throughout their congregations to find what social issues were impacting their communities the most. While gun violence and affordable housing have been issues raised since the group’s inception, food insecurity was the latest to join the list.

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Interfaith student leaders promote climate care in North Carolina places of worship

February 26, 2024

C.E. Jordan High School junior Aven Schwartz can’t remember a time that she didn’t care about the environment.

Her mom works as Durham County’s sustainability manager, so she grew up learning about the climate and ways to care for it. And when she started high school, she joined a student environmental group there to try to make a difference.

Then, last year, she heard about an opportunity to advocate for climate care from a faith perspective. Despite initially being a bit...

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Multifaith global week of action urging insurers to end fossil fuel coverage

February 26, 2024

 

Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian campaigners held a vigil outside Lloyd's of London on Monday, 26 February, urging them to use their power to bring about a safer, prosperous future for all.

As the world's biggest insurance market, Lloyds should end insurance for all new fossil fuel projects and phase out existing fossil fuel insurance, faith groups said.

 

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Celebrating Religions Working Together at an Interfaith Harmony Event at the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles

February 6, 2024

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 6, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In an era of increased polarization, rising hate crimes, and social and economic challenges affecting all segments of society, religious leaders gathered at the Church of Scientology to review how religions can work together to improve the quality of life for their congregations and the greater community.

The program, held February 3, marked World Interfaith Harmony Week, established by the UN to “promote harmony between all people regardless of their faith” with the conviction that “mutual understanding and...

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Confucian figures should take part in creating peaceful election: VP

February 12, 2024

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Vice President (VP) Ma'ruf Amin appealed to Confucian figures to play a role in creating peaceful election when delivering an online speech at the 2575 Kongzili Chinese New Year National Celebration at Balai Samudera here on Monday.

"I invite all parties to participate in making this important national agenda a success. Confucian religious figures should play a bigger role in supporting calm and peaceful elections," Amin remarked.

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Navigating love beyond beliefs: Inter-religious couples redefine relationships

February 14, 2024

In college campuses across the country, a shift occurs as students navigate the unknowns of inter-religious relationships.

These relationships, built on open communication, respect and love, are breaking barriers and redefining the correlation between religion and relationships.

Maria Collins, 38, said they are all about working together with your partner to foster a healthy and long-lasting relationship.

“I’ve been married to my husband for over a decade now,” Collins said. “I was born and raised Catholic, while my husband Anthony was raised Jewish. We...

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‘We Will Find Ease With Them': Mosque Opens Doors to Parishioners of Cambridge Church After Fire

April 13, 2023

For the first time since their church burned in a fire on Easter Sunday, some of those who attended Faith Lutheran Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, came together Wednesday night to pray.

Only this time, they congregated at a different house of worship: A nearby mosque.

The churchgoers were welcomed at the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge.

"This is the first time that our church, since the building...

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Faith leaders call for Gov. Healey, lawmakers to tackle housing crisis

March 16, 2023

Standing with a crowd of around 300 people outside the Massachusetts State House, the Rev. Lydia Shiu of Reservoir Church in Cambridge evoked an enduring metaphor — that of David taking on the giant Goliath in the Bible — as she spoke of the commonwealth's housing challenges.

Shiu helped lead a Greater Boston Interfaith Organization rally Thursday, where the coalition of religious groups and unions called on state leaders to make housing more affordable and accessible. She said the “GBIO sling” had secured past policy wins in health care and criminal justice reform.

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More than 100 gather for Boston interfaith vigil calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war

January 24, 2024

More than 100 people gathered in front of Boston Public Library Wednesday evening for a vigil calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and memorializing the lives lost in Gaza and Israel since the war’s outbreak. 

The vigil, which started at 5 p.m., was attended by Rep. Ayanna Pressley along with numerous interfaith leaders and activists. Throughout the event, speakers condemned the U.S. government’s support of Israel and called for a unified demand for a ceasefire. 

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Mideast War Pushes Companies to Extend Diversity Programs to Faith Groups

December 9, 2023

 

When Nabeela Elsayed was speaking at a corporate conference several years ago and explained that she would miss the group dinner because she was fasting for Ramadan, she recalls, her manager responded: “Just don’t fast.” Ms. Elsayed, an executive coach who was previously chief operating officer for Walmart Canada, said she had heard many such slights when stepping away during the workday to pray.

For years, she told business leaders that their diversity, equity and inclusion programming should teach workers about anti-Muslim hate, antisemitism and other...

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Interfaith: The new revolution at BYU

December 5, 2023

While attending high school in his hometown in northern Utah, McKay Bowman noticed all but a few of his classmates were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Bowman, who was raised a member of the Church, became aware of religious differences through his own family.

“My mom is a convert to the Church, and my dad’s parents are converts. And so, in some sense (in) my extended family, there’s this element of like, existing sort of, religious difference,” Bowman said.

However, it wasn’t until Bowman joined the Interfaith Student...

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