{"id":10018,"date":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/06\/interfaith-dialogue-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","slug":"interfaith-dialogue-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/06\/interfaith-dialogue-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith Dialogue in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaoa.com\/news\/religions-62839-unite-hundreds.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIDLAND, TEXAS, April 5, 2011 (Odessa American): The religions are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old, but the conversation is all new. Three religions will unite in dialogue for the Permian Basin&#8217;s first interfaith event Thursday, April 7, at St. Stephen&#8217;s Catholic Church. The discussion will feature leaders of the Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, Hindu and Episcopal faiths.<\/p>\n<p>The event was initiated by Dr. Padmaja Patel, who said she wanted to create a discussion of a different sort between the religions. &#8220;I wanted to do it for quite some time, but I wasn&#8217;t sure how to go about it,&#8221; Patel said. She asked the religious leaders to each submit one question regarding contemporary issues. The possible topics range from political discourse to philosophical ideas, like how a religion interprets pain or suffering.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the questions is to see how different faith groups analyze and confront situations based on their philosophies and doctrines. &#8220;The idea is to understand how our faith allows us to understand,&#8221; Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. James Bridges of St. Stephen&#8217;s Catholic Church said the talk will help in getting to know the non-Christian populations that are making West Texas their new home. &#8220;For the first time we&#8217;ve had Hindus migrate over here to help with our diocese and in the medical profession, and we&#8217;re finding mosques,&#8221; Bridges said. &#8220;We&#8217;re finding people who worship God sincerely but do not have any connection with Christ and are not Christian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today, will represent Hinduism at the panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MIDLAND, TEXAS, April 5, 2011 (Odessa American): The religions are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old, but the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}