Posts tagged interfaith
Posts tagged interfaith
Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Buddhists — all dressed in their best folk singing garb — sing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” at an interfaith Thanksgiving ceremony held at the Pleasantville Community Synagogue in New York. [NYT article]
In Baghdad, a Muslim woman (in black hair covering and holding a copy of the Quran) stands in solidarity with a Christian woman (in white hair covering and holding a copy of the Bible), to show solidarity with the dwindling number of Iraqi Christians and their right to live freely and peacefully side-by-side with their Muslim sisters and brothers.
At a school in Ahmadabad, Muslim girls are wearing some inter-religious understanding, and lighting earthen lamps to mark Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. (Diwali is also sometimes celebrated in Jainism and Sikhism)
Dressed in black and a humble smile, Albanian Muslim Bahrije Seiti Borici holds the Certificate of Honor awarded to her family - one of 70 known Muslim families (62 of which were Albanian) who risked their own safety to protect Jewish families from persecution during the Holocaust.
(Articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Book: Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II, by Norman H. Gershman)
Rashida James-Saadiya is watching you in live action, with depth and detail like never before. And she’s thinking you need to put on some pants please.
Muslims Isam Bachiri (left) and Waqas Ali Qadri (right) are perfectly tolerant - even supportive - of their Catholic, Christian group member, Lenny Martinez (center), wearing a cross. (music vid)