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Reclaiming the Heart of Humanity

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2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice, Justice & Sustainability
ParliamentofReligions.com

10,000 People
80 Nations
50 Faiths

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah


On October 16, 2015 John Morton and Leigh Taylor-Young Morton will be presenting a workshop at the 2015 Parliament in Salt Lake City, Utah entitled: Silence as a Dynamic Way to Compassion and Peace Awareness.

Their workshop will focus on experiencing:

  • Silence as a form of communion, a universal language, its own vibration that transcends differences, hostilities and misunderstandings and attunes us to the oneness, the unity, the humanity of all humankind.
  • The power of silence in attuning to the simple presence, loving, joy and compassion, that is God, that is unity, that is peace.
  • Tools for activating compassion and peace awareness through invocation, chanting, listening, observing, breathing, meditation, prayer and forgiveness.

Experience the power of silence right now – Watch the 3 minute video –  “The Silence Within” by John-Roger, DSS – Click Here or the video below.


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Parliament is the oldest, the largest and the most inclusive gathering of people of all faiths and traditions. Originally convened in 1893 on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago as part of an original World Trade Fair, this was the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. Today it is recognized as the birth of formal interreligious dialogue worldwide.

The intent of Parliament is an interfaith gathering now being held every 5 years, including so-called new religions, to apply the collective wisdom of the world’s religions to establish a global ethic for the needs of the world.

For those of you interested in a little history, John Morton previously participated in the 1999 Parliament held in Cape Town, South Africa and the 2009 Parliament held in Melbourne, Australia.


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In preparation for the 1893 Parliament, the General Committee formulated ten objects of the Parliament:

1. To bring together in conference, for the first time in history, the leading representatives of the great historic religions of the world.

2. To show to men, in the most impressive way, what and how many important truths the various religions hold and teach in common.

3. To promote and deepen the spirit of human brotherhood among religious men of diverse faiths, through friendly conference and mutual good understanding, while not seeking to foster the temper of indifferentism, and not striving to achieve any formal and outward unity.

4. To set forth, by those most competent to speak, what are deemed the important distinctive truths held and taught by each Religion, and by the various chief branches of Christendom.

5. To indicate the impregnable foundations of Theism, and the reasons for man’s faith in Immortality, and thus to unite and strengthen the forces which are adverse to a materialistic philosophy of the universe.

6. To secure from leading scholars, representing the Brahman, Buddhist, Confucian, Parsee, Mohammedan, Jewish and other Faiths, and from representatives of the various Churches of Christendom, full and accurate statements of the spiritual
and other effects of the Religions which they hold upon the Literature, Art, Commerce, Government, Domestic and Social life of the peoples among whom these Faiths have prevailed.

7. To inquire what light each Religion has afforded, or may afford, to the other religions of the world.

8. To set forth, for permanent record to be published to the world, an accurate and authoritative account of the present condition and outlook of Religion among the leading nations of the earth.

9. To discover, from competent men, what light Religion has to throw on the great problems of the present age, especially the important questions connected with Temperance, Labor, Education, Wealth and Poverty.

10. To bring the nations of the earth into a more friendly fellowship, in the hope of securing permanent international peace.


This article was published in the September | October 2015 edition of the New Day Herald Online Magazine, available via ISSUU.

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