Links

ICCI serves as the Israel chapter of Religions for Peace

and is a member of the International Council of Christians and Jews.

 

The following links are maintained by ICCI as a service to the interreligious community. These links are to sites outside the ICCI site. The contents of the sites listed here do not necessarily reflect the position or interests of ICCI. Rather, we hope they are useful tools in making global connections and accessing information.

 

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Misc. resources: news, repositories, forums, archives and useful tools

Common Ground News Service commissions and distributes balanced and solution-oriented articles by local and international experts to promote constructive perspectives and encourage dialogue about current Middle East issues.

 

 Computer Assisted Theology: This page provides an annotated list of Internet resources relating to theological studies. 

 

Hebrew Date Converter allows you to easily convert Hebrew dates to Gregorian calendar dates, and vice versa.

 

Hijri / Islamic Calendar News Widget shows you the current Hijri (Islamic) date every day, and you can also download it to use on your compute (as a widget compatible with Vista, Google. Apple, Opera and Windows Live).

 

IslamicFinder is a portal that provides users with Muslim prayer times and lists of Muslim organizations all over the world, a Hijri/Gregorian date converter, articles, links and more.

 

Jewish Christian Relations is devoted to fostering mutual respect and understanding between Christians and Jews around the world. Here you will find articles, reviews, reports, official statements, and study resources on Jewish-Christian relations, as well as links to many related organizations.

 

MultiFaithNet is a self-access research, learning, information and dialogue tool, providing updated access to global electronic resources and interactions useful for study of world religious traditions and communities and the practice of inter-faith dialogue.

 

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, launched in 2001, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.

 

SIDIC - Service International de Documentation Judeo-Chretienne (International Service of Jewish-Christian Documentation), one of the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, was created in November 1965 to serve the call of the Church to understand and esteem the Jewish people as it understands itself, and to deepen Christian faith through the study of the faith of the Jewish people.

 

World Scripture, a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts

 

Worldwide Faith News is a data base of full text official news releases and other documents, including policy statements, from the news offices of national and world faith groups.

 

Communities, organizations, centers and foundations

 Beliefnet: A multi-faith e-community designed to help people meet their own religious and spiritual needs -- in an interesting, captivating and engaging way

 

Canadian Council of Christians and Jews: A national, non-sectarian organization that provides programs and strategies that educate against discrimination, orejudice and bias

 

Consultation for Interfaith Education, an international consortium of organizations working for the advancement of the field of interfaith education.

 

Council of Christians and Jews in the UK, works with Christian and Jewish communities to promote mutual understanding and combat prejudice and anti-Semitism.

 

Council for a Paliament of the World's Religions cultivates harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and fosters their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

 

Global Dialogue Institute promotes dialogue in the broadest sense among individuals and groups of different religions and cultures.

 

Global Ethic Foundation for intercultural and inter-religious research, education and encounter

 

The Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies (ICJS) is a non-profit organization that concentrates its educational expertise on the dual tasks of disarming religious hatred and establishing models of interfaith understanding.

 

Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research is a center for academic year resident scholars, for invitational summer consultations, and periodically for large conferences and other events.

 

Institute of Interfaith Dialog aims to help bring together communities in order to promote compassion, cooperation, partnership and community service through interfaith dialog and conversation.

 

The Interfaith Alliance:  Founded in 1994 to challenge the radical religious right, TIA remains committed to promoting the positive and healing role of religion in public life by encouraging civic participation, facilitating community activism, and challenging religious political extremism.

 

The Interfaith Center of New York aims to create understanding and respect among the different religious groups in New York City.

 

Interfaith Center for Peace: Responding in faith to the wisdom of spiritual leaders throughout human history, the Interfaith Center for Peace teaches people, by deed and example, how to be peacemakers in their own places.

 

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston brings people of diverse faith traditions together for dialogue, collaboration and service.

 

The Interfaith Network for the UK was founded in 1987 to promote good relations between people of different faiths in the UK.

 

Interfaith Voices for Peace and Justice - A Directory of more than 700 organizations actively seeking peace and justice.

 

Interfaith Youth Core empowers young people of faith to be leaders in building a pluralist society.

 

International Association for Religious Freedom is a registered charity based in the United Kingdom which has the aim of working for freedom of religion and belief at a global level.

 

International Committee for the Peace Council: An international and interfaith group of religious leaders working together for peace.

 

International Council of Christians and Jews: The umbrella organisation of 38 national Jewish-Christian dialogue organisations world-wide.

 

International Interfaith Center promotes interreligious understanding and co-operation between different faith communities and organisations of religious or spiritual conviction.

 

Monastic Interreligious Dialogue is an organization of Benedictine and Trappist monks and nuns committed to fostering interreligious and intermonastic dialogue at the level of spiritual practice and experience.

 

The National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel is to encourage and develop understanding and support for the people, land and state of Israel in the North American Christian community.

 

The National Conference for Community and Justice is a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism in America.

 

North American Interfaith Network is an association of interfaith organizations and agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

 

Northwest Assistance Ministries strive to meet basic human needs through neighbors helping neighbors.

 

The Pluralism Project at Harvard University engages students and affiliates in the study of the new religious diversity in the United States.

 

Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s great religions dedicated to promoting peace.

 

Religious Tolerance, Ontario's consultants on religious tolerance.

 

Religious Youth Services, young leaders of all faiths serving together for peace

 

Rissho Kosei-kai, is a Buddhist organization in direct line of descent from Shakyamuni Buddha, which is dedicated to working for a world in which people of all persuasions will be linked by bonds of friendship

 

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace is a unique meeting space in the heart of the City of London devoted to promoting understanding of the relationship between faith and conflict.

 

The Three Faiths Forum aims to encourage friendship, goodwill and understanding amongst people of the three Abrahamic monotheistic faiths in the UK and elsewhere.

 

Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding aims to defuse verbal and physical violence perpetrated in the name of religion.

 

United Religions Initiative promotes enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.

 

United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and democratic transformations, and increase peacebuilding capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.

 

Women's Interfaith Network is a group of women from diverse religions, who have come together to engage in a meaningful dialogue, and are committed to furthering a more tolerant and inclusive society.

 

World Congress of Faiths,  a personal membership educational charity established 1936, which works to develop better understanding, co-operation and respect between people of different faiths.

 

World Council of Churches brings together more than 340 churches, denominations and church fellowships in over 100 countries and territories throughout the world.

 

The World Council of Religious Leaders, formed as a result of the Millenium World Peace Summit, works to bring religious resources to support the work of the United Nations in our common quest for peace.

 

World Faith's Development Dialogue, an initiative of James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank and Lord Carey, then Archbishop of Canterbury, aims to facilitate a dialogue on poverty and development among people from different religions and between them and the international development institutions.

 

 

 
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