North America

Please join us for the 3rd Annual Interfaith World Peace Pilgrimage to Mount Baldy on Saturday June 25th, 2011.

There are many kinds of spiritual practice.  Most of them are derived from one of the major religions.  Spiritual practices of this kind tend to be based on teachings from one of the earlier civilizations.  Some of these practices are very profound and deserving of our attention.  On the other hand, we live in the beginnings of a global age, one which has teachings coming from different civilizations of the past and, at the same time, needing to be relevant to this age.  Each new civilization will be a combination of older teachings and teachings born of the age now coming into being.  It is in the integration of past, present, and future that a civilization gains its completeness.

Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Pakistan
A panel discussion with 
Father James Channan, Anasuya Sengupta and Sabahat Rafiq

Gaining trust to visit an American governmental institution is one of the things that increased my interest of being a student in the USA and a URI youth Ambassador. A lot of people try to limit our ambitions as Arabs, even worse as females. But you see, a hypothesis will always be in doubt until proved right. I am writing today to give a tiny example of how Intersectionality can be challenged.

Tony Blair, Founder and Patron of the Tony Blair Foundation, recently announced the selection of 30 young people from the UK, US, Canada and India to join his Faith Foundation's youth leadership.