NEW HAVEN: From the 28 - 31 of July, 2008 at Yale University (USA), an interreligious conference, "Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed: Implications for Christians and Muslims" took place, the first of a series of interactive forums planned to take place through 2009. The aim of the conference was to identify and present issues and common ground effecting Christians and Muslims in the twenty-first century.

The conference was a joint collaboration between the university's "Center for Faith and Culture" and the 138 Islamic scholars who last year composed the document, "A Common Word between Us and You", headed by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammed of Jordan.

Over 150 Muslim and Christian scholars from countries throught the world took place in the conference, as well as a number of observers from the Jewish faith. According to the organizers of the conference, "If Muslims and Christians, who together comprise more than half the world’s population, can acknowledge mutual commitment to loving God and loving neighbor the boost to a dynamic and peaceful interdependence in our globalized world would be immense."

The hierarch of the Ukrainian Autocehalous Orthodox Church in America, the Metropolitan of New York, Mykhayil, took part in the work of the conference. A more detailed article will appear soon on our website. Currently, readers can view more pictures by visiting the site of the Press Service of our church in Ukraine, uaoc.net who first published them on August 5.

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Click here to read this article in Ukrainian.