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Eboo Patel

September 13, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Eboo Patel speaking at a TEDx talk

Eboo Patel is the co-founder of the IFYC, an organization that strives to turn interfaith into a high-energy, service-oriented way of being together.

Filed Under: Islam, North America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Music Vision Week: Abrahamic Faiths

July 5, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Abrahamic Faiths Music Vision

These featured peacemaking musicians reflect the diversity of the Abrahamic faiths: Pat Humphries & Sandy Opatow, Matisyahu, Emmanuel Jai, & Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens.

Filed Under: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, SPIRITUALITY

Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988)

March 8, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Muslim independence activist who organized a nonviolent army—the Khudai Khidmatgars—to oppose British colonial rule in India.

Filed Under: Asia, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Anthony Fabrice Kettemallet

February 23, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Anthony Fabrice Kettemallet

Meet Anthony Fabrice Kettemallet, a young human rights activist in the Central African Republic who founded the organization Bird of Peace.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

King Negus Ashama ibn Abjar of Abyssinia (d. 630)

February 1, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Obelisk of Axum

Ashama ibn Abjar was a 7th-century Christian king of Axum (part of modern-day Ethiopia) who provided refuge to Arab Muslims fleeing religious persecution.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Adel Imam (b. 1940) & Omar Sharif (b. 1932)

January 26, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Adel Imam and Omar Sharif

Actors Adel Imam and Omar Sharif starred in the 2008 film “Hassan and Morcos,” which stirred controversy for honestly exposing religious tensions in Egypt.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) and al-Malik al-Kamil (1180-1238)

January 5, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

The Meeting of St. Francis and al-Kamil

Amid the horrors of the Crusades, Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil dared to cross battle lines. After a week of talks, they parted as friends.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Europe, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit

October 27, 2014 by Daniel Buttry

Imam Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit led a mosque-based resistance effort that provided shelter and travel assistance to as many as 1,700 French Jews during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II.

Filed Under: Europe, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Albanian Muslims During the Holocaust

October 27, 2014 by Daniel Buttry

For many years the heavy curtain of Communism shrouded Albania from the view of the rest of the world. When that curtain was lifted in 1991 amazing stories emerged about the role of Albanian Muslims saving Jews during the Holocaust that swept across Nazi-occupied Europe.

Filed Under: Europe, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997)

October 12, 2014 by Daniel Buttry

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani girl who has received global recognition for her published diary about life under the Taliban and her fearless advocacy for the education of girls in the face of Taliban violence. She is the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Filed Under: Asia, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

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