Conference For Interfaith Dialogue Formation

The Episcopal Church's Interfaith Education Initiative Conference will be held 30 Sept - 2 Oct with the theme "Charged to do what is Right and Just."

The conference will be held at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC, and will network individuals that are engaged in interfaith dialogue at a local level. The conference is produced in partnership with the College of Preachers, the National Cathedral and the Interfaith Education Initiative (IEI).

Christians, Jews and Muslims will come together and discuss interfaith dialogue formation from a local and global level.

The theme of the conference will be addressed by Dr. Wesley Ariarajah and Clare Amos. Clare Amos has been Convenor/Coordinator of the Anglican Communion's Network for Inter Faith Concerns (NIFCON) since August 2001. Ariarajah is a Methodist minister from Sri Lanka who has served both in the pastoral ministry of the church and as lecturer in the History of Religions and New Testament in the common Protestant seminary of the churches in Sri Lanka.

Keynote speaker will be Dr. Diana Eck, a noted authority on religious pluralism in the United States. Other speakers include the Rev. Charles Gibbs of the United Religions Initiative; Clarke Lobenstein of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (D.C.); and Dr. C. Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance. Dr. Shanta Premawardhana, Associate General Secretary for Interfaith Relations of the National Council of Churches, will be the closing speaker.




Jenny Lee
Ecumenical Press