Community Events
National Day of Interfaith Youth Service 2008
Nearly 200 youth participated in the National Day of Interfaith Youth Service on Sunday afternoon, April 13, 2008, at Cobbs Creek Environmental Center. Youth were engaged in environmental learning and action, interfaith conversations and arts workshops.
The event was sponsored by the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia in cooperation with the Fairmount Park Commission of the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Green Program of The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Neighborhood Interfaith Movement, (NIM), and Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center, Inc.
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The Faith Line: Building the Beloved Community
Over 225 people of diverse backgrounds gathered on Feb. 12 for the Interfaith Center’s event featuring Dr. Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core. The icy evening was both heartwarming and inspiring. See the photo gallery and video excerpts of the program.
Dr. Patel’s address, The Faith Line: Building the Beloved Community, focused on stories of religious leaders who shaped major social movements after encountering people and ideas of other faith traditions: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He described the “faith line” as dividing not Christians and Jews, Muslims and Hindus, but pluralists and enemies of pluralism. See the video excerpts of Dr. Patel’s speech
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