{"id":21947,"date":"2015-11-26T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=21947"},"modified":"2015-11-26T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T12:56:59","slug":"fighting-ignorance-through-friendship-iskcon-youth-delegation-at-european-interfaith-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=21947","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Ignorance Through Friendship ISKCON Youth Delegation at European Interfaith Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Kumari Kunti Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 2015 will be a month remembered in worry and fear for Muslims all over Europe, after the Paris attacks, yet again marked the tensions their religious community faces in Europe and the rest of the world. <\/p>\n

Just a week before the attacks, from Oct. 26 \u2013 Nov 2nd, youth from all over Europe were building a network of peace and connection at the Religions for Peace Interfaith Youth Conference, in San Gandolfo Italy. <\/p>\n

The outcome of the event was simple and hopeful – friendships and knowledge can break any barriers. <\/p>\n

ISKCON-London was one of six other religious partners, sending five youth and one facilitator to the training conference entitled \u201cEmpowering Youth in Interfaith and Multicultural Peace Action\u201d at the Focolare\u2019s Mariopolis Centre in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. <\/p>\n

The ISKCON delegation was all second generation youth from around London, took part in the seminars and forums in an active way, as well as lead a \u201cmoment of peace\u201d for the entire assembly reciting the Mangalam Caranam prayers and the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, as well as held evening Damodarastakam prayers where many youth form other backgrounds took part. More than 50 youth were present, representing 15 EU countries and all major faith backgrounds. <\/p>\n

The week-long event was a rigorous schedule including back-to-back seminars such as the \u201cRole of Interfaith Youth in the Building of the Future of Europe: Dialogue with Katarina von Schnurbein European Commission\u201d, and \u201cTraining Youth Citizen Reporters\u201d, \u201cChanging Our Way of Thinking-Towards a Holistic Approach for Contributing to Peace.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, in between these lofty presentations was where the real learning took place. \u201cHow do deal with how people treat you in school?\u201d Why do you think people in your country don\u2019t understand your religion?\u201d were some of the questions and discussions heard as one walked through the hallways and on the dining tables. The youth were setting deep set roots and making connections to the international community in ways that will last a lifetime. <\/p>\n

As Said Touhami\u200e, a 21 year-old Sufi Muslim participant from the Netherlands, put it on the Religions for Peace internal Facebook group: <\/p>\n

\u201cIn Roma [Castel Gandolofo is near Rome] we tasted a peace of Heaven. And if we only can taste a peace of Heaven when we are together. That’s only way to create one on earth. With eachothers differences, ambitions and qualities.\u201d <\/p>\n

By Kumari Kunti Sherreitt
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\"HareBy Kumari Kunti Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 2015 will be a month remembered in worry and fear for Muslims all over Europe, after the Paris attacks, yet again marked the tensions their religious community faces in Europe and the rest of the world. Just a week before the attacks, from Oct. 26 \u2013 Nov 2nd, youth from all over Europe were building a network of peace and connection at the Religions for Peace Interfaith Youth Conference, in San Gandolfo Italy. The outcome of the event was simple and hopeful – friendships and knowledge can break any barriers. ISKCON-London was one of six other religious partners, sending five youth and one facilitator to the training conference entitled \u201cEmpowering Youth in Interfaith and Multicultural Peace Action\u201d at the Focolare\u2019s Mariopolis Centre in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21964,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions\/21964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}