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	Inter-religious Dialogue - New World Encyclopedia
		There already exist ancient guidelines for human behavior which are found in the teachings of the religions of the world and which are the condition for a sustainable world order.” Behind this declaration was the distinguished German theologian Hans Kűng, whose followers canvassed widely for signatures at the 1993 meeting.
		The mystical traditions of the world’s religions provide a critique of such over-formalized religious belief and practice, yet are a well-winnowed and enduring route by which to establish and sustain a relationship with Ultimate Reality.
		Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/Inter-religious_Dialogue (4691 words)

	Amma addresses the Parliament of World's Religions in 1993 @ Amritapuri.org
		It marked the first concerted effort to bring all the different religions to a common platform where leaders and representatives of all faiths were able to communicate and share their views.
		The centenary of the first Parliament of the World's Religions was held, also in Chicago, from August 28 to September 4, 1993.
		A momentous achievement of this second Parliament was the formation of a core group of the world's most influential religious leaders, an assembly of 25 presidents representing all major faiths.
	www.amritapuri.org /amma/pwr93/pwr93.php (692 words)

	The Bahá'ís: The Oneness of Religion: the Bahá'í Faith and the Interfaith Movement
		A milestone came in 1893, when the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, drew "together the widest spectrum of speakers and participants ever assembled from the religious traditions of the world," according to Diana Eck, a professor of comparative religion at Harvard University.
		World Religion Day is commemorated worldwide on the third Sunday in January in hundreds of Bahá'í communities worldwide.
		In 1999, a council composed of representatives of world religions - including the Bahá'í Faith - convened the second Parliament of the World's Religions in South Africa, a follow-up to the 1993 gathering in Chicago, which also had extensive Bahá'í participation and which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions.
	www.bahai.org /features/devotions/interfaith (1776 words)

	Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics - World Parliament of Religions
		The first meeting termed a "Parliament of the World Religions" was held in Chicago in 1893, as part of the Columbian Exposition.
		The Parliament and Assembly focus on what the CPWR terms a "community" level engagement of religions and spiritual movements, with no pretense to be formally representative of religions or in any sense proportional to beliefs and organizations at the global level.
		Following that, in 1970 the World Conference on Religion and Peace first met in Kyoto with the hopes that world religionists would join the congress to share their goals and contribute to world peace in the spirit of inter-religious cooperation.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/PARTNERS/EXTDEVDIALOGUE/0,,contentMDK:20270092~menuPK:1477281~pagePK:64192523~piPK:64192458~theSitePK:537298,00.html (4017 words)

	Parliament World Religions
		This event was the centenary of the first 'Parliament of the World's Religions' held in Chicago in 1893.
		The first Parliament of the World's Religions was held in 1893 in Chicago, and a century later the Parliament again convened there.
		At the 1993 Parliament, representatives of 125 religious traditions signed a document, "Toward a Global Ethic," noting that most of the world religions have many moral and ethical teachings in common, such as commitment to a nonviolent way of living.
	www.inplainsite.org /html/parliament_world_religions.html (1969 words)

	The Beginning
		The Religions of Empire Conference, which was held in connection with the British Empire Exhibition, clearly illustrated the importance to the Empire, in some people’s minds, of mutual understanding between members of different religions.
		As part of the World Fair held in Chicago to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the ‘discovery’ of America by Christopher Columbus, a World’s Parliament of Religions was held, at the suggestion of Charles Bonney.
		The World Congress of Faiths of 1936 did indeed maintain the objects of the World Fellowship of Faiths and the name of the Fellowship’s International President, HH The Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda, was shown on the literature.
	www.worldfaiths.org /Beginning.htm (2394 words)

	Baha'is participate in interfaith parliament
		Warren attended the Parliament in her capacity as one of 15 members of the Parliament's international advisory committee -- a group that includes such figures as the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, and Ela Gandhi, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.
		Warren was largely sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation, in part because of her participation in Interfaith Action for Peace in Africa, which was initiated by the Lutherans.
		The Parliament is the third such gathering since 1993, when some 8,000 people from all religions came together in Chicago to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the World's Parliament of Religions, which was held there in 1893 and was the start of the movement for interreligious dialog.
	www.bahaiworldnews.org /story.cfm?storyid=310 (807 words)

	~ Parliament of the World's Religions Part 1 ~ Interreligious Dialogue or New Age Rally? by Elliot Miller ~
		Parliament of the World's Religions by Elliot Miller
		The first Parliament is also marked as the beginning of the interfaith movement, with its formal pursuit of dialogue and cooperation among the world's religions.
		She explained that the vision of the Parliament's organizers is to see the event generate a whole series of ongoing parliaments, globally and locally.
	members.fortunecity.com /thetruth7/worldreligions1.html (4039 words)

	Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: World Parliament of Religions 1893
		The 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions, held on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago, was the largest and most spectacular event among many other congresses in the World’s Columbian Exposition.
		The organizing process of the Parliament began after Charles Carroll Bonney, a layman in the Swedenborgian church and the president of the World's Congress Auxiliary, appointed John Henry Barrows to administer the General Committee on the Congress of Religion, which eventually was called the World's Parliament of Religions.
		Consequently, the decision of which religion could reasonably be included in or excluded from the group of “ten great world religions” had put aside the categories of culture and ethnicity.
	people.bu.edu /wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_707_worldparliamentofreligions1893.htm (3825 words)

	Office for History and Archives
		This was evident at a recreation of The World Parliament of Religions, held at the Palmer House in downtown Chicago from Aug. 28-Sept. 4, 1993.
		The parliament was held as part of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the new world.
		While the parliament failed at religious dialogue, it succeeded as the first attempt at non-polemical dialogue held in an age that was dominantly Protestant, culturally imperialistic and where secularism within society was on the rise at the turn of the century.
	www.paulist.org /main/history_notes_parliament.htm (1357 words)

	Sri Chinmoy Opens the Parliament of World’s Religions
		Barcelona – International world harmony leader Sri Chinmoy opened the week-long Parliament of World’s Religions in Barcelona with silent meditation and a performance of his peace-filled music on the esraj, an ancient Indian stringed instrument.
		The Parliament is the world’s greatest gathering of religious and spiritual leaders.
		The Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona is one of the largest events that took place during the five-month Universal Forum for Cultures in the beautiful Spanish city.
	www.yogachicago.com /sep04/parliament.shtml (193 words)

	Interfaith Studies: profile of Parliament of World's Religions
		Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR)
		The 2004 Parliament of the World's Religions is an international interreligious gathering to be held in Barcelona 7-13 July 2004.
		Parliament Academy: The Parliament event is a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students, seminarians, and student activists to engage with a wealth of information and knowledge about religious traditions and spiritual practices.
	www.interfaithstudies.org /network/cpwr.html (462 words)

	2004 Parliament of the World's Religions: UNESCO Culture Sector
		In 1893, during the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the World’s Parliament of Religions gave birth to organized interreligious encounter and marked the beginning of formal dialogue between the religious and spiritual traditions of the East and the West.
		In 1993, the Parliament of the World’s Religions was reborn in Chicago, with 8,000 people from around the world coming together to share their identities, to celebrate diversity and harmony and to explore religious and spiritual responses to the critical issues facing the global community.
		In 2004, the Parliament of the World’s Religions—one of the most significant events of the Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona—will invite the world to confront the challenges and model the possibilities of living peacefully in the midst of diversity.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19969&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (190 words)

	wfn.org \| [CPWR] Parliament of World's Religions Proposes Steps Toward Middle East Peace
		The mission of CPWR is to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just and sustainable world.
		We, members of the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of World Religions, grieve at the continuing violence and the loss of life and civilian infrastructure and damage to the earth in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine.
		An encouragement by the Parliament to the religious leaders of the region to come together to invoke their common heritage, to denounce religiously-motivated violence, and to take the lead in attempting to resolve outstanding disputes.
	www.wfn.org /2006/08/msg00247.html (791 words)

	Circle Magazine Archives -- Parliament of World Religions
		The 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions was extraordinary.
		The Parliament was a positively transforming experience for the Pagans that took part and for Paganism as a whole.
		As the Parliament began, Paganism's splendid diversity was manifest in the colorful garb of those in the opening procession, and two priestesses, Lady Olivia Robertson and Baroness Cara-Marguerite Drusilla, brought a glowing Goddess presence to the stage of dignitaries in the first plenary.
	www.circlesanctuary.org /circle/articles/circlepowr/1993.html (2217 words)

	HANS KUNG: DECLARATION OF THE RELIGIONS FOR A GLOBAL ETHIC
		The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago commissioned me to develop a draft of a "Declaration of the Religions for a Global Ethic." That was for me an extremely difficult task.
		The 1993 "Parliament of the World's Religions" (attended by 6,500 persons) was held in Chicago August 28 - September 4, 1993, and this Declaration was solemnly proclaimed on September 4, 1993.
		Religions, however, are able to provide people a horizon of meaning for their lives, ultimate standards and a spiritual home.
	astro.temple.edu /~dialogue/Center/kung.htm (4271 words)

	Prophecy Central: One-World Religion
		The document was released by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and is said to have the explicit approval of Pope John Paul II.
		The logo for the World Peace Summit is the symbol of each of these religions forming a circle around the symbol for the UN.
		Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions
	www.bible-prophecy.com /religions.htm (3505 words)

	World's Parliament of Religions
		While a reprise of the original World's Parliament of Religions in the centennial year of 1993 drew some attention, it was the one held during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 that made history.
		The Parliament's notable speakers included James Cardinal Gibbons for Roman Catholicism, Isaac Mayer Wise for Judaism, Mary Baker Eddy for Christian Science, Annie Besant for Theosophy, and reformer Frances Willard.
		The World's Parliament of Religions: The East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1387.html (200 words)

	Interfaith in the 20th Century
		The World's Parliament of Religions was held as part of the World Fair or Columbian Exposition which marked the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America.
		The word "Parliament" was chosen to emphasize that participants of all religions were equal, but, in fact, the body had no executive or legislative authority.
		Marcus Braybrooke is an author, trustee of the International Interfaith Centre, World Congress of Faiths (http://www.worldfaiths.org), Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, and the Peace Council.
	www.innerself.com /Spirituality/interfaith.htm (1342 words)

	WORLD'S PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS: PRESENTATION OF SPIRITUALISM, A Paper Arranged By The GUIDES of MRS. CORA L.V. ...
		To the writer it is the one side of the equilateral triangle of which the phenomenal portion is the base and religion the other side, which triangle solves the circle of immortality.
		In a movement wholly impelled from the realm of spirit and borne forward on the wave of inspiration, although intelligently met and aided from the first by many among the ablest minds of the earth, it is utterly impossible to name or number all those whom it has reached.
		The whole world touched, awakened, thrilled, aroused from the lethargy of material propositions and dogmatic assertions, from charnal houses of the senses, the tombs of death and despair, from sepulchers wherein their hope and faith and highest love were well nigh buried, turns toward this anew day-dawn saying,
	www.interfarfacing.com /world.html (2863 words)

	Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions \| Home
		Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
		Dalai Lama in Melbourne His Holiness the Dalai Lama confirmed his participation in the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions to be held in Melbourne.
		World's Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world.
	www.cpwr.org (183 words)

	The World Parliament of Religions —
		I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.
		I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation.
		But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.
	www.writespirit.net /inspirational_talks/spiritual/swami_vivekananda_talks/the_world_parliament_of_religions (396 words)

	Parliament of the World's Religions
		A Parliament of the World's Religions, held initially in 1893, was the first major interfaith conference in recorded history, bringing together eastern and western spiritual leaders to learn about and with each other.
		The second Parliament of the World's Religions was held in Chicago August 28 - Sept. 5, 1993.
		In 1999 the Parliament of the World's Religions was held in South Africa December 1st - December 8th.
	www.earthspirit.org /Parliament/parlinfo.html (267 words)

	Monastic Interreligious Dialogue \| Parliament of World Religions, Chicago: Part 2
		Not unlike the motivations for dialog with Eastern religions today, the ideals that gave rise to the Parliament of Religions were an expression of a genuine desire for universal brotherhood and better understanding of religious differences.
		The organization of the Parliament of Religions was essentially a Christian response to the apparent triumph of science in the West.
		The Parliament was to be a “decisive demonstration of the impregnable foundations of theism.” This overriding consideration was practically responsible for hindering a deeper dialog addressed to the intrinsic merits of Asian spirituality.
	www.monasticdialog.com /a.php?id=6 (981 words)

	Parliament of the World's Religions
		A Parliament of the World's Religions, held initially in 1893, was the first major interfaith conference in recorded history, bringing together eastern and western spiritual leaders to learn about and with each other.
		The second Parliament of the World's Religions was held in Chicago August 28 - Sept. 5, 1993.
		In 1999 the Parliament of the World's Religions was held in South Africa December 1st - December 8th.
	www.earthspirit.com /Parliament/parlinfo.html (267 words)

	September 11: World Parliament of Religions; Christian History Institute
		The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in honor of the 400th year of Columbus' voyage to the New World, was not just a big trade fair.
		He claimed later that he had hoped leaders of world religions would be convinced of the superiority of Christianity.
		Most Protestant evangelicals agreed with the response of the Archbishop of Canterbury that to participate was to presuppose the equality of religions.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/09/daily-09-11-2001.shtml (502 words)

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