Speeches
- Written by: Dr. Abraham Shalom Haim: Sephardi Community Council of Jerusalem, Israel & Spain
The aim of this short article is to present a Jewish holy site in the Jewish quarter of the old city of Jerusalem. This holy site does not need any definition of the status quo. Moreover, along its history, this place was not under any conflict (except during very few occasions) with the government authorities.
- Written by: Dr. Ines Angeli Murzaku, Chair and Professor, Department of Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University, U.S.A.
Cities are the locus of human diversity; their policies, structures and institutions can significantly contribute to fostering cohesive, stimulating, safe and fulfilled communities.
- Written by: Hon. Roger Williams, Member, U.S. Congress
The Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Army have deployed six mobile labs to Liberia that are currently providing diagnostic capabilities that are so important to containing and reducing the Ebola Virus. These six mobile labs are enhancing the work already being done by three experts at the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research lab.
- Written by: Dr. Charles S. Yang, Chairman, Universal Peace Federation
Let's make a commitment now to come closer together, to work harder together, and to make Peru and indeed the whole of Latin America part of a peaceful and prosperous world.
- Written by: Fr. Eliseo “Jun” Mercado, Director, Institute for Autonomy and Governance, Philippines
In times past, conflicts, poverty, religions and ethnocentrism in all forms helped shape inter-cultural and interreligious discourses. These discourses in many parts of the world are often marked by violence and intractable conflicts following religious as well as ethnic divides in our pluralistic world.
- Written by: Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami, Sri Radha Raman Temple, Vrindavan, India
We all have to come together, and to work together we have to talk to each other. From this dialogue the best knowledge system will emerge.
- Written by: Fr. Eliseo R. Mercado, OMI, Philippines
There is a the urgent need to plant, cultivate and nurture a new and refreshing attitude of openness in mind and heart, an essential disposition in understanding and living through the relations between Muslims and Christians.
- Written by: Sen. Richard H. Black, 13th District, Virginia, U.S.A.
Unless we seize this moment, we risk facilitating the next great clash of civilizations between Islam and the Western world.
- Written by: H.E. Maria do Carmo Trovoada Silveira, Prime Minister (2005-06), Sao Tome and Principe
We need to work for the reconciliation of humanity with the legacy of history that has resulted in a multi-polar world, politically, culturally and religiously.
- Written by: Amb. Tatsuo Mizuno, Former Ambassador to Nepal, Japan
We should overcome the differences of the past, tackle misunderstandings, unite and cooperate in a forward-looking spirit.
- Written by: Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, Co-Founder, Universal Peace Federation
Let us forgive our enemies, love our neighbors as if they were our own flesh and blood, and unite for the sake of peace.
- Written by: Dr. Julio María Sanguinetti, President (1985-1990, 1995-2000), Uruguay
I want to express my appreciation for your great investment in South America and, more broadly, the Americas, and the world.