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June 12, 2009: Religion and Hate Crimes
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom, an Orthodox synagogue in Washington, participated in an interfaith vigil at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and his congregation's Torah study was dedicated to the memory of the museum security officer who was shot to death.
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Eliyahu McLean: Building Interfaith Relationships
Eliyahu McLean of Jerusalem Peacemakers helps organize a movement called the Abrahamic Reunion, which tries to build friendships among Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
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Elana Rozenman: Trust is Difficult
Elana Rozenman, executive director of a grassroots group called Trust-Emun, is also part of the Abrahamic Reunion movement. She says there are many challenges to building trust, but peace cannot come without it.
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Bishop Munib Younan: Seeing God in the Other
Munib Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and one of the most prominent Palestinian Christian leaders in the region, talks about theological solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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May 15, 2009: Pope’s Mideast Trip Wrap-Up
It was a week of prayers and pleas for peace and gestures of reconciliation to all sides in the Holy Land.
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May 8, 2009: Religion and Peace in the Middle East
"I don't think any of us are under any illusions that we're going to solve the peace problem, but we also realize that you can't have peace without religious leaders," says former US ambassador Tony Hall.
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April 24, 2009: Faith Based Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan
Matthew McGarry, Catholic Relief Services representative in Afghanistan, says "people's faith is central to every aspect of their daily life in Afghanistan, and not taking that into account can undermine every other positive thing that the Administration might want to do."
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January 23, 2009: Religion and the Obama Inauguration
In prayers, worship, balls, and other inaugural events the nation's religious diversity was highlighted.
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January 16, 2009: Spiritual Voices on Obama Administration
Novelist Alice McDermott, Morehouse College president Robert Franklin, and Rabbi Marc Gopin ponder the meaning of the national moment on the eve of Inauguration Day.
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January 16, 2009: Gustav Niebuhr on Interfaith Understanding
He says he values the work of the "everyday peacemakers" in U.S. churches, synagogues, and mosques whose curiosity about each other's faith has led to important interfaith conversations
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