By Daniel J. Lehmann CHICA GO: Mother Teresa plans to join the Dalai Lama and hundreds of other sectarian leaders this summer in Chicago at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, leaders said recently, The Parliament, first held a century ago in conjunction with the Columbian Exposition, was informed of the nun’. ‘S pledge to participate by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, said the Rev. David Ramage, president of Mc Cormic Theological Seminary in Hyde Park and chairman of the event. The parliament has been touted for nearly five years, primarily by non-Western minority faiths in the United States. Now, mainline Protestants, Eastern Orthodox and the major Jewish movements are signing on, giving the event worldwide significance.
Ramage and Daniel GomezI banez, parliament executive director, said 5,000 people are likely to attend the Aug.28Sept.4 gathering centered at the Palmer House Hotel. Its broad participation should make the conference meaningful to Roman Catholics and Methodists as well as to Muslims and Zoroastrians, they said.
The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, will give the Closing address, they said, Mother Teresa scheduled to lead a closed session of key participants On future cooperative efforts among the world’s religions.
Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charities, has been here twice, once to dedicate a shelter and soup kitchen and once to open a convent the goal of the eight day event is to affirm what faiths have in common to reduce intolerance and violence.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 23, 1993
