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 give priority, in the development of new programs of research, application, and outreach, to those children, women, and displaced peoples around the world who have little access to advanced systems, tools, and modalities of healing;
to honor and learn from traditional modes of healing in concert with modern technological perspectives on the human body;
to take always into account, in the design of experimental protocols, public health programs, laboratories, research centers, clinics, and hospitals, the constellation of values, cultural norms, and spiritual concerns of local communities;
THE CALL TO SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
to find ways to focus the creative energies of science and medicine more intentionally, systematically, and intensively on the most pressing issues of human survival, such as food, health, demographic change, and ecological sustainability;
to enter into dialogue with religious and spiritual communities about the evolving scientific understanding of the origins and complex dynamics of the universe.
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