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This interfaith declaration is the result of
a two-year consultation among more than two hundred scholars and theologians representing
the world's communities of faith.
On September 2-4, 1993, the document was discussed by an assembly of religious and spiritual leaders meeting as part of the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions in
Chicago. Respected leaders from all the world's major faiths signed the declaration as individuals, agreeing that it represents an initial effort: a point of beginning for a
world sorely in need of ethical consensus.
The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and the persons who have endorsed this text offer it
to the world as an initial statement of those rules for living on which the world's religions agree.
We invite additional endorsements from
women and men everywhere.
© 1993, Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
Post Office Box 1630 Chicago, Illinois, 60690-1630 U.S.A.
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