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COUNCIL FOR A PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS<br />
Address<br />
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions,<br />
70 E. Lake Street, Suite 205, Chicago, IL 60601<br />
Phone Not indicated.<br />
Fax 312.629.2991<br />
Web www.cpwr.org<br />
E-Mail Contact form on their website.<br />
Category Dialogue<br />
MISSION STATEMENT<br />
<strong>The</strong> mission of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual<br />
communities and foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and<br />
sustainable world.<br />
Founding year 1988.<br />
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES<br />
<strong>The</strong> Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions’ role as a facilitator of interreligious encounter, dialogue and cooperative<br />
common action puts it in a unique position to encourage and enable the religious and spiritual communities themselves to address<br />
the critical issues in meaningful and powerful ways. <strong>The</strong> Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions does this by:<br />
• Working to establish respectful and trusting relationships with each religious and spiritual community<br />
• Providing models for encounter, dialogue and cooperation within and among religious and spiritual communities<br />
• Encouraging religious and spiritual communities to develop their own rationales for interreligious dialogue and cooperation, and<br />
address the critical issues Providing models for, and access to, creative engagement between religion and spirituality and other<br />
guiding institutions (e.g. government, business/commerce, education, media, and science)<br />
• Bringing the critical issues to the attention of the religious and spiritual communities, along with thoughtful perspectives and up-todate<br />
and reliable information<br />
• Assisting individual religious and spiritual communities, and "communities of communities" in developing their own visions of<br />
possible futures.<br />
Upcoming events include significant participation in the 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures in Monterrey, Mexico and the 2009<br />
Parliament of the World's Religions.<br />
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<br />
Küng, H. (1993). Towards a Global Ethics: An Initial Declaration. Chicago, Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions.<br />
Rev. Dirk Ficca: Executive Director, dirk@cpwr.org<br />
REMARKS