Clatsop Community College
1653 Jerome, Astoria OR 97103
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Contact: Lenore Morrisson (503) 338-2473 or Sali Diamond 325-1963

CCC Arts & Ideas Presents World Religion Day; Honoring the Unity of All Beliefs

Clatsop Community College’s Arts & Ideas presents a program honoring World Religion Day at 7 p.m. Saturday, January 20. The chosen topic for the presentation is “How do we as people of faith honor each other’s beliefs and attain world peace?” The event is free and open to the public.

Faith presenters will also perform music and chants, and quilts and banners will be on display. Six different faiths will present, in order of historical timeline; Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Islam and Baha’i.

World Religion Day began in 1948 to foster the establishment of interfaith understanding and harmony. Appearing on the United Nations Calendar annually, it emphasizes the common denominators underlying all religions. The message of World Religion Day is that mankind, which has stemmed from one origin, must now strive toward the reconciliation of that which has been split up. Human unity and true equality depend not on past origins, but rather on future goals—on what we are becoming and where we are going.

Through World Religion Day observances, a unified approach to the changes that confront humanity is discussed, with the goal that the whole earth can be viewed as a single country and humanity as its citizenry.

We are all truly related.

Join this gathering of faiths in helping to establish a common dialogue at 7 p.m. Saturday, January 20 at the Performing Arts Center, located at the corner of 16th and Exchange Streets in Astoria.

The World Religion Day event is co-sponsored by South County Interfaith Partnership (SCIP) and the Baha’i’s of Clatsop County.

Join us in peace.