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Religious Issues Related Activities

See the general news media and church publications on activities and attempts to reach agreements such as these:

- Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission: document "The Gift of Authority", May 1999

- Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church: movement toward union (maintain separate identities and recognize each other's members and clergy)

- Muslim-Christian conferences in Washington, DC: (maintain separate identities and recognize each other's members and clergy)

- Muslim-Christian conferences in Washington, DC:

Nov. 6-7, 1998: "The Two Sacred Paths: Christianity and Islam: a Call for Understanding"
Nov. 20-21, 1999: "Cultural Diversity and Islam"

- World Faiths Development Dialogue: dialogue sponsored by James Wolfenson, President of the World Bank, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1998.

- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, New York: "A North American association of nearly 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish institutional investors."

- Lutheran-Roman Catholic doctrinal agreement signed October 31, 1999.

- Evangelical Lutheran Church approves unity plan with Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ, and the Reformed Church in America, August 18, 1997.

- Orthodox-Roman Catholic meetings in Romania, May 1999.

- Vatican and International Jewish Committee for Interreligous Consultations, on use of church archives on the role of Pope Pius XII in the Holocaust, Fall 1999.


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