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Bangalore; Dr Homi B. Dhalla, founder of the Zoroastrian Cultural Foundation in Mumbai; Bishop Dr. Thomas Dabre, secretary general of the Council of Catholic Bishops of India; Jagadguru Sri Sri Sri Shivaratri Desikendra Mahaswami, the 24th pontiff of Sri Suttur Math, Karnataka; Rev. Stanislaus Fernandez, archbishop of Gandhinagar; Swami Jitatmananda of the Ramakrishna order; Shiek-e-Tarigat Hadrat Syed Muhammad Jilani Ashraf, the 28th descendant of Hadrat Ghuthe-Azan Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani; Rev. Ezekiel Isaac Malekar of Judah Hymn Synagogue, New Delhi; Prince Huzaifa Mohynduddin, son of H.H. Dr Syedna Muhammad Barhanuddin, the 52nd incumbent of the august office the Dal-Mutg; Brahma Kumari Sudesh Dadi; Dr Jaswant Singh Neki of Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan; Ven. Rahul Bodhi of Bikku Sangha United Buddhist Mission, Sarvodya Maha Suddha Vihar, Mumbai; Maulana Wahiduddin of the Islamic Centre in New Delhi; and Yuvacharya Mahashraman and Sadhvi Pramukha Kanakprabha of Shwetambar Terapanth Community.
FOUNDATION FOR UNITY OF RELIGIONS AND
ENLIGHTENED CITIZENSHIP (FUREC) To pursue the philosophy of the Surat Declaration, FUREC was established on 15 June 2004. FUREC began with an advantage. It had, for the first time in recent history, leading representatives of all the living religions of the country. Fifteen spiritual leaders belonging to nine different religions came together on one platform to spread the message of harmony and peace. They sought to harness spiritual energy for social transformation: economic, societal and spiritual.
In the first year itself, FUREC held more than seventy meetings across the country where local representatives of different religions got together and expressed their solidarity and commitment to the cause. This was done in
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