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last update: 3 May 2002


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 Interreligious response


  • Asian Muslim Action Network (no.1)
  • Asian Muslim Action Network - Reflections on Ramadan (no.2)
  • Asian Muslim Action Network - poems (no.3)
  • Bangsamoro Forum for Peace
  • Buddhist Peace Fellowship
  • A Human Approach to PeaceMessage from His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai LamaNEW
  • Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, India
  • Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
  • Declaración de los obispos católicos y líderes musulmanes de Estados Unidos
  • Filipino people of the Muslim and Christian faiths
  • Interfaith Search Fiji
  • International Conference on "Christians and Muslims in a pluralised Europe" in Sarajevo (Declaration of the participants)
  • International Muslim-Christian symposium in Cairo October 28-29, 2001
  • International Conference on Religious Cooperation organized by the Buddhist Association of the Republic of China and the World Chinese Buddhist Sangha Congress
  • International Movement for a Just World (JUST) (no.1)
  • International Movement for a Just World (JUST) (no.2)
  • Interreligious Council of Russia statement
  • The "Islam on line" website is an excellent Islamic resource
  • Japanese Committee of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP)
  • Jesuit Curia, Rome: article by Tom Michel SJ, secretary for interreligious dialogue
    JEWISH PERSPECTIVES:
      Article by Michael Lerner on "Where the Violence comes from"
      "The Sukkah and the World Trade Center" by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
      "The Two Faces of America - Both Real" by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
      "The Chanukah miracle we need this year" by Rabbi Michael Lerner
  • Pluralism Project
  • Muslims living in New York City
  • Religions of India - Together for peaceNEW
  • Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (no.1)
  • Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (no.2 - Nov. 13)
  • Article by Salman Rushdie entitled "Yes, it is about Islam"
  • Article by Edward W. Said, professor of comparative literature at the University of Columbia (in English and French)
  • SALAAM Peace Foundation
  • Sant’Egidio Community Muslim-Christian Summit
  • The Iman Riad Tatary, one of the highest Muslim authorities in Spain, issued a press release criticizing the United States and the war in Afghanistan
  • Statement by Ahmed Ben Bella, former President of the Algerian Republic, President of the North-South Association, and Mamadou Dia, former President of the government of the Republic of Senegal
  • US Catholic bishops and Muslim leaders statement
  • US religious leaders Statement
  • World Conference on Religion and Peace (no.1)
  • President of the World Forum for Enhancing Relations Among Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Muhammad Ali Taskhiri's reply to WCC general secretary Konrad Raiser's greetings to the world-wide Muslim community at the beginning of Ramadan
  • World Conference on Religion for Peace convened a symposium on Dialogue among Civilizations (no.2)
  • World Congress for the Preservation of Religious Diversity
  • World Forum for enhancing Relations Among Islamic Schools of Thought
  • Report of a World Council of Churches interfaith conference on "Religion and Violence" in Florida, USA, February 8-12, 2002
  • World Council of Churches greets world-wide Muslim community at beginning of Ramadan
  • World Muslim Congress
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