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Global Ethic Foundation and Hans Küng receive international awards |
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| The Tübingen based Global Ethic Foundation received the “Interfaith Education Award” for its commitment and activities in the field of interreligious education. The award was given by the “Temple of Understanding”, an interreligious organization founded in 1960 and based in New York, and includes a prize money of US $ 5,000. The same organization granted its “Juliet Hollister Award” to Professor Hans Küng for his “extraordinary service to interreligious understanding through his life work”. Both awards were delivered on July 10, 2004 at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona. This huge interreligious event took place from 7 to 13 July with thousands of participants. Its programme included a public dialogue between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi of Iran and Hans Küng. In Chicago in 1993 the Parliament of World's Religions adopted the “Declaration Toward a Global Ethic”. The Parliament is held about every fifth year. |
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