An interreligious seminar taking place in the northeastern United States city of Rochester on Monday through tomorrow will attempt to explore the root causes of the mounting violence in the world. At the seminar, entitled 'Spiritual Dimensions underlying the crisis in violence,' the World Council of Churches (WCC) will engage with a panel of leaders of the local Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish and Christian faiths.
Other events scheduled at the seminar include an ecumentical worship celebration with prayers, litanies and readings and a 14 November workshop sharing "stories of hope from Rochester and from around the world", the WCC said.
The event is being sponsored by the Greater Rochester Community of Churches, the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and the Rochester Friends of the WCC.
The WCC is an ecumenical body grouping more than 340 churches, denominations and church fellowships in over 100 countries and territories throughout the world, representing some 550 million Christians. It includes most of the world's Orthodox churches and scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well as many united and independent churches.
While the bulk of the WCC's founding churches were European and North American, most are now in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific.
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