{"id":8537,"date":"2009-12-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/09\/the-parliament-of-the-world-s-religions-looks-beyond-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T12:00:00","slug":"the-parliament-of-the-world-s-religions-looks-beyond-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/09\/the-parliament-of-the-world-s-religions-looks-beyond-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions Looks Beyond 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Press Release<\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 10, 2009: After seven magnificent days, the 2009 Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions has officially closed, with a moving ceremony at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people from more than 80 cultures and faiths attended more than 650 programs, with over 1300 world-class speakers and performers, living the mantra Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Dirk Ficca, Executive Director of the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions, hailed the event a huge success and thanked Melbourne for its gracious hospitality. &#8220;Melbourne has been a wonderful host, showing itself to be multiculturally diverse and embracing, and the ideal location for this global ecumenical gathering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Ficca reinforced the importance of building on the 2009 Parliament&#8217;s legacy, and urged delegates at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference to heal the earth for future generations. &#8220;Today is about more than celebrating what has been achieved here &#8211; it is also a day for looking ahead. I call on all attendees to capture this event&#8217;s legacy, cultivating harmony among religions, honoring differences and working together for peace and justice around the world. To assist in this process, we have launched PeaceNext.org, a social networking site harnessing the energy gained here and providing a diverse voice for the religions of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions can continue the legacy by registering at PeaceNext.org to connect with members around the world. Users can upload photos, blog posts and discuss topics of importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Press Release MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 10, 2009: After seven magnificent days, the 2009 Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions has,&#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-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}