{"id":11329,"date":"2012-09-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/18\/911-prayer-service-for-interfaith-understanding\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:00:00","slug":"911-prayer-service-for-interfaith-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/18\/911-prayer-service-for-interfaith-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Prayer Service for Interfaith Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfaithprayer.org\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EUGENE, OREGON, September 12, 2012 (Press Release): A large interfaith congregation at the First Christian Church in downtown Eugene observed the 11th Anniversary of September 11 with a somber and yet upbeat program of multicultural music, prayers and reflections. The program was sponsored by the Interfaith Prayer Services International, IPSI, a nonprofit organization based in Eugene. The theme was &#8220;Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the presenters were many religious and spiritual leaders from all major faith traditions. Eugene City Mayor Kitty Piercy focused her talk on &#8220;Challenges of a Human Rights City&#8221; which Eugene is. Among the presenters were Rev. Dan Bryant of the First Christian Church where the interfaith prayer program is held each month, Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin, Ibrahim Hamide of the Islamic faith, Tenzin Norris, a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, and African American storyteller, Paulette Ansari. Hinduism was represented by Swamini Svatmavidyananda of the Arsha Vijnana Gurukulam, who offered &#8220;A Prayer for Universal Harmony from the Rg Veda.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Other faith traditions represented in the 110 minute program included Sikh Dharma, Sufism, Baha&#8217;i and Native American. The coordinator for the evening program was Arun Narayan Toke, one of the founding board members of the IPSI. Arun, a native of India, is the founder and publisher of Skipping Stones, a multicultural literary magazine based in Eugene since 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source EUGENE, OREGON, September 12, 2012 (Press Release): A large interfaith congregation at the First Christian Church in downtown Eugene,&#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-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","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=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}