{"id":27558,"date":"2015-10-23T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=27558"},"modified":"2015-10-23T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T23:34:14","slug":"parliament-of-the-worlds-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/10\/23\/parliament-of-the-worlds-religions\/27558\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliamentofreligions.org\/\">Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions<\/a>, the oldest and largest interfaith gathering in the world, was held October 15-19th in Salt Lake City. Some 10,000 participants from 50 spiritual traditions participated. The event was first held in Chicago in 1893. This year\u2019s gathering focused on peace, climate change, and women in leadership. Imam Malik Mujahid, who chairs the Parliament\u2019s board of trustees, described the event and why he believes it is important for people of faith to gather in solidarity and believe in \u201cthe humanity of the other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s conference focused on women in leadership, peace, and climate change. Imam Malik Mujahid elaborates on the issues the Parliament considered and the importance of supporting religious leaders \u201cwho believe in the humanity of the other.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/10\/23\/parliament-of-the-worlds-religions\/27558\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":27578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-international","topics-religious-leaders","faith-interfaith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parliament of the World&#039;s Religions | October 23, 2015 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/10\/23\/parliament-of-the-worlds-religions\/27558\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parliament of the World&#039;s Religions | October 23, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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