► ICF
Working Committee Holds First Meeting with National Coordinators
Bruce Van Voorhis
A new layer was added to the structure of Interfaith Cooperation
Forum (ICF) late last year—national coordinators—to strengthen the
work of ICF’s regional network at the national level. After being
selected in their countries by their fellow School of Peace (SOP)
alumni, they joined the ICF working committee members, staff and
project holders in the Philippines for a three-day meeting in
February to review the work of ICF in 2010 and to plan future
activities over the next four years. [Read
more]
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Responding to Intolerance with Tolerance: Indonesia’s Ahmadiyyah
Community Speaks
Zafrullah Pontoh
At a press conference on Feb. 6 in Jakarta after the most recent
attack on the Ahmadiyyah community in Indonesia, the press secretary
of Ahmadiyyah Indonesia outlines what occurred during the latest
fatal outburst of hostility against their community that day and how
it continues a trend of intolerance in the country. [Read
more]
► Stop
Violence in the Name of Religion Now!
Civil Society Network for Gender Equality and Pluralism
In response to the violent attacks against the Ahmadiyyah and
Christians in Indonesia at the beginning of February, a network of
organizations and individuals in the country and abroad issued a
statement on Feb. 9 in Jakarta condemning these deadly acts done
ostensibly on the basis of religion. [Read
more]
►
Religious Violence in Indonesia Result of Authorities’ Consent in
Past Cases
Asian Human Rights Commission
Human rights violations can be caused as much by the failure of the
government to take action as they can by the actions of the
government as is clearly explained in this statement on Feb. 8 by a
regional human rights organization in Hong Kong about recent
violence against religious minorities in Indonesia. [Read
more]
► It
Hurts, But We Can Face It
Kristi Thie
An Indonesian participant of the three-week School of Peace (SOP)
conducted by Interfaith Cooperation Forum (ICF) and the Asia and
Pacific Alliance of YMCAs (APAY) last year in Sri Lanka questions
the divisions in her country in the wake of attacks on religious
minorities in early February and offers a prescription and a prayer
for mending these broken relationships. [Read
more]
►
ENOUGH!
Moegyo
A refugee poet from Burma living on the border in Thailand
eloquently describes the realities of life in his homeland and what
should be done to change those realities. [Read
more]
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