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Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

October 24, 2005 - Monday Mission

Live internet discussion focuses on religions and Middle East policy

[Episcopal News Service] "When Faiths Unite: Religion and U.S. Policy
toward the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" is the theme of a live internet
program on October 26, from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (Central) The program will
be carried via the Internet at equivalent times in your time zone at
the following web addresses:

Broadband: mms://streaming2.nd.edu/faithsunite

Dial-up: mms://streaming2.nd.edu/faithsunite?WMContentBitrate=56000

Featured speakers include Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, president of the
American Sufi Muslim Association; Rabbi David Saperstein, director
of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; and Ronald Young,
co-coordinator of the National Interreligious Initiative for Peace in
the Middle East.

Over the past two years, religious leaders of most of the major Jewish,
Muslim and Christian entities in the United States have come together in
support of a common agenda for U.S. policy toward the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict called the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for
Peace in the Middle East.

Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold and others in the Episcopal Church have
been active in this effort. Two of the religious leaders, along with the
Protestant layman who helped organize this ground breaking initiative,
will discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in finding common
ground on the hotly-contested issue of the U.S. role in promoting peace
in the Middle East.

Documents associated with the National Interreligious Initiative can be
found at: http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/international/holylandpeace.htm
or http://www.walktheroadtopeace.org/national_leadership.php  or
http://www.adifferentfuture.org

The program is sponsored by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies, the Center for Social Concerns, the Theology Department
and its Program on Catholic Social Tradition, and the Office of Campus
Ministry of Notre Dame University.

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