Index for the July-September
2002 issue of ONE COUNTRY (Volume 14, issue 2)
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In Johannesburg, a shift in emphasis on sustainable development
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, governments reaffirm the basic agenda of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio while stressing an urgent need to fight poverty; a new partnership with civil society is forged.Ethical and spiritual dimensions of sustainable development stressed by Bahá'ís at Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG - Representatives of the worldwide Bahá'í community were active in virtually all venues of the Johannesburg Summit, from the inter-governmental sessions at Sandton Center to informal workshops at the Civil Society Forum. But their message was nevertheless quite focused: recognize and incorporate the moral, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of sustainable development.In Bolivia, an isolated village seeks to establish its own school system in the face of discrimination
PUKA PUKA, Chuquisaca, Bolivia - For many years, the Government-run school in this village of some 700 people on the Bolivian altiplano offered only kindergarten through third grade. Students who wanted any kind of education beyond that had to walk from 3 to 6 kilometers to one of several nearby towns.Perspective: Religion and Development at the Crossroads: Convergence or Divergence?
The United Nations has yet to grasp fully both the constructive role that religion can play in creating a peaceful and prosperous global order, and the destructive impact that religious fanaticism can have on the stability and progress of the world.Bahá'ís of Peru help energize an interfaith coalition, winning key recognition
LIMA, Peru - Recent efforts by the Bahá'í community of Peru to promote religious understanding have helped to energize an on-going interfaith collaboration aimed at winning wider Government recognition for non-Catholic religions, leading to the establishment of a new national Directorate of Interfaith Affairs.Bahá'ís in Chile announce call for Temple designs
SANTIAGO, Chile, 12 September 2002 (BWNS) - The national governing body of the Bahá'í community in Chile has called for submission of designs for a continental House of Worship, to be built southeast of Santiago. The building will be the eighth Bahá'í House of Worship in the world.New volume of Bahá'í sacred writings is published
HAIFA, Israel, 22 September 2002 - An important early epistle of Bahá'u'lláh that explores the human quest for spiritual enlightenment and the symbols used throughout the history of religious revelation has been recently translated and published in English.Top-rated Indian BBC quiz show uses New Delhi Bahá'í temple as backdrop
NEW DELHI - "Mastermind India," a top-rated quiz program produced by the BBC, held its first show of the 2002-03 season at the Bahá'í House of Worship.Review: Finding the locus between faith and ecology
A Sacred Trust: Ecology & Spiritual Vision, edited by David Cadman and John Carey
Thoughtful people have always understood the connection between nature and spirituality. But in terms of an explicit connection between organized religion and the conservation movement, an important milestone came in 1987, when the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) invited global religions to participate in an interfaith event at Assisi, Italy, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Fund.