Dr. Tim Crain, Director of National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill lecturing on Moses, Jesus and Mohammed
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The Greater Pittsburgh Interfaith Coalition (PAJC is a member) invites you join us for a panel discussion where we will explore the roots of compassion across faith traditions. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. |
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International news media called Ahmet Yildiz’s murder the "first Turkish gay honor killing." The crime and the discourses that unfolded in its aftermath speak to racializing narratives within Turkey, as well as across transnational queer circuits, and to the imagined transnational division of labor between the domestic and the public, where the relationship between sex and violence is used to shore up the West as the place of stranger danger by establishing the so-called "East" as the location of family violence. |
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The Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue invites local faculty, students, and members of the general public to the “Religion & Society Lecture Series” of monthly talks. The series has been organized in collaboration with the Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh, which will provide refreshments. |
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As a lingua franca promoted by multi-ethnic and multi-religious states and expanded further by education and commerce, Persian had reached the zenith of its geographical and social reach by the eighteenth century. In the course of the nineteenth century, it was rapidly undermined by the rise of new imperial and vernacular languages. |
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Join us to learn how to effectively communicate with the media in a way that represents the positive presence of Muslims in US society! This workshop will benefit all in a position to be interviewed by the media, or to contribute to the media (TV, Radio, Print, Web, Wire Services) as officials or as individual community members who have a voice that they want to be heard. -Identifying opportunities |
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Bassem Tamimi is an internationally recognized Palestinian human rights activist from the West Bank farming village of Nabi Selah, where weekly nonviolent demonstrations are held in opposition to illegal Israeli settlement construction and military occupation. Bassem has been detained by the Israeli authorities over a dozen times, at one point spending three years in administrative detention without trial. In 1993, as a result of interrogation by the Israeli Shin Bet, Bassem was left unconscious for eight days and partially paralyzed for months to follow. |
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The industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, abuse of power and human greed, and continuing population explosion in many countries have all contributed to an environmental crisis that threatens the sustainability of life on planet earth as we know it. Our reliance on fossil fuels, our creation of immense quantities of waste products, and our destruction of natural resources to fuel our consumer economies have led to global warming, a reduction in biodiversity and a serious threat to long-term environmental sustainability. |
 Pope Francis: Reshaping the Diplomatic Role of the Vatican- Global Engagement and Leadership Program
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Keynote speaker: Ambassador Anne Leahy Introductory Remarks by the Most Reverend Moderated by Ambassador Dan Simpson |
