Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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A CALL TO OUR GUIDING INSTITUTIONS
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to find practical means to bring those elements of their teachings that address justice, peace, and care for future generations to wider and more immediate effect through engagement with the other guiding institutions;
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to work closely with the institutions of government to bring religious teachings and values to bear in the struggle against corruption, dishonesty, and bribery at all levels;
to safeguard against the use of religious and spiritual belief and practice as briefs for intolerance, tools for political manipulation, or warrants for conflict, terror, and violence;
THE CALL TO RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
to urge their adherents to work together-within and across traditions—to respond directly to the critical issues facing the world: intolerance; racism; violence; the threat of annihilation through the use of nuclear weapons, social, political, and economic injustice; systematic deprivation and exploitation of children and women; and ecological degradation;
to promote service-in solidarity and in partnership with the poor and vulnerable to the entire human family and to the Earth as an affirmation of their teachings on personal spiritual growth, social justice, and life lived in ever-deepening relationship to Ultimate Reality.
1999 PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS