Resolution UNGA A/65/PV.34 On September 23rd 2010, HM King Abdullah II of Jordan introduced a World Interfaith Harmony Week at the Plenary Session of the 65th UN General Assembly in New York. For this unprecedented global harmony initiative HM King Abdullah II of Jordan was recognized in the Global Harmony Association (GHA) as WORLD HARMONY CREATOR www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=513 Spiritual Culture for Harmonious Civilization Citizens of Earth! Unite in harmony for love, peace, justice, fraternity and happiness! Global Harmony Association (GHA) Since 2005, GHA is an international NGO uniting more than 500 members in 56 countries and more than one million participants from the GHA collective members in 80 countries. Web: www.peacefromharmony.org Board: 37 GHA members from 14 countries www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=249 GHA Founder and President: Dr. Leo Semashko Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg, 194356 Russia E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253 GHA Mission is: To bring peace from harmony and to pave a conscious way for harmonious civilization on scientifically based ‘ABC of Harmony’ through harmonious education 1 World Interfaith Harmony: Internal Harmonious Potential of Religions and General Scientific Platform of the ABC of Harmony Interfaith Harmony Educational Project of the GHA Project Meaning The UN World Interfaith Harmony Week is the second great intuitive step of humanity to global harmony and harmonious civilization after the Congress of World Religions in 1893, Chicago. The highest purpose and subject of the GHA Project of World Interfaith Harmony is to make this step from the intuitive into scientific-conscious o-ne and commit it o-n the fundamentally new way of global harmonious education at the ABC of Harmony base. It is its ultimate meaning. The Project authors suggest to hold of the Third World Religions Congress "Global Interfaith Harmony Education" in 2015, under the UN aegis. The GHA key proposal to Jordan’s King HM Abdullah II in our Project is: To organize the Third World Religions Congress "Global Interfaith Harmony Education" on February 1-7, 2015 in Amman, under the UN aegis. It will be logical development of the HM World Interfaith Harmony Week initiative. Project Key Definition: The ABC of Harmony is the second, after the internal harmonious potential of religions, necessary scientific and educational base for world interfaith harmony in the 21st century. The ABC of Harmony as world textbook provides global harmonious education, forming global harmonious consciousness as the most profound and sustainable spiritual foundation for interfaith harmony and harmonious civilization of the new century. It opens an entirely new, Interspiritual Revolution Age of world interfaith harmony. Project Overall Goal: Dialogue and Creation in Different Faiths of the Interfaith Harmony Schools Project Purposes in 2013: 1. The Project debates in various religious denominations during the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week (UNWIHW): the first week of February, 2013 (http://worldinterfaithharmonyweek.com/) 2. In the event the Project will find recognition in any confession of any country, to start creating in it the first Interfaith Harmony School based on the ABC of Harmony in partnership with GHA. 3. Participation in the contest for the WIHW Prize: http://worldinterfaithharmonyweek.com/world-interfaith-harmony-week-prize/ GHA 42nd Project Started: December 7, 2012 Approved in GHA: February 8, 2013 Project Initiator, one of Authors and Editor in Chief is Dr. Leo Semashko and 2 More than 110 Participants of the GHA Project from 5 Continents, Including 35 Coauthors (38 articles and 2 poems) from 14 Confessions and of 17 Countries on February 24, 2013 The GHA World Interfaith Harmony Project Authors Author’s Name: Faith: Country: 1. Celia Altschuler Catholic Puerto Rico 2. Ayo Ayoola-Amale. Catholic Ghana 3. Daurenbek Aubakir Muslim Kazakhstan 4. Reimon Bachika. Shinto Japan 5. Uraz Baimuratov. Muslim Kazakhstan 6. Ammar Banni. Muslim Algeria 7. Julia Budnikova. Orthodox Russia 8. Tholana A. Chakravarthy. Hindu India 9. Bruce L. Cook. Catholic USA 10. Robert D. Crane Muslim Qatar 11. Dmitry Delyukin. Orthodox Russia 12. Pravat K. Dhal. Hindu India 13. Michael Ellis. Buddhist Australia 14. Michael D. Greaney. Catholic USA 15. Kurt Johnson Multifaith USA 16. APJ Abdul Kalam. Muslim India 17. Tatomir Ion-Marius Ecumenism Romania 18. Glenn T. Martin. Multifaith USA 19. A. K. Merchant. Bahá’í India 20. Charles Mercieca. Multifaith USA 21. Nina Meyerhof. Jewish USA 22. Manijeh Navidnia. Muslim Iran 23. David R. Ord Multifaith USA 24. Abbas Panakkal Muslim India 25. Bishnu Pathak. Hindu-Buddhist Nepal 26. Steve V. Rajan. Muslim Malaysia 27. Maitreyee B. Roy. Hindu India 28. Leo Semashko. Orthodox Russia 29. Sunita Singh Sengupta Hindu India 30. Varant Z. Seropian. Lebanese-Armenian Lebanon Christian 31. Rudolf Siebert. Catholic USA 32. Yehuda Stolov. Jewish Israel 33. Laj Utreja. Sanatana Dharma USA 34. Rene Wadlow. Liberal protestant France 35. Chintamani Yogi Hindu Nepal Faiths representatives: Algeria 1. Bahá’í – 1 Australia 2. Buddhist – 1 France 3. Catholic – 5 Ghana 4. Ecumenism - 1 India 5. Hindu – 5 Iran 6. Hindu-Buddhist – 1 Israel 7. Jewish – 2 Japan 3 8. Lebanese-Armenian Christian – 1 Kazakhstan 9. Liberal protestant – 1 Lebanon 10. Multifaith – 3 Malaysia 11. Muslim – 5 Nepal 12. Orthodox – 3 Puerto Rico 13. Sanatana Dharma – 1 Qatar 14. Shinto – 1 Romania - All confessions are 14. Russia USA - All countries are 17 4 The project is open to new participants on the basis of ideas and articles of interfaith harmony on the basis of the ABC of Harmony and similar books to join the authors and/or the public discussion through the GHA mailing list: [email protected] and on the GHA Forum (see below). All project authors gave positive reviews of the ABC of Harmony that expresses their spiritual unity in the scientific understanding of the social and interfaith harmony in all their theoretical diversity (see the articles below). The ABC of Harmony as world textbook provides global harmonious education, forming global harmonious consciousness as the most profound and lasting scientific foundation for interfaith harmony and harmonious civilization of the 21st century. The ABC of Harmony reviews in Russian and English are available here: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=534 www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=506 © Global Harmony Association, 2012 © Leo M. Semashko, 2012 Published in languages: English: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541 Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=563 PDF publication: English: www.peacefromharmony.org/docs/World_Interfaith_Harmony.pdf Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/docs/World_Interfaith_Harmony_rus.pdf Project’s Discussion on the GHA Forum: English: www.forum.peacefromharmony.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2049 Russian: www.forum.peacefromharmony.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2050 Access to English Project via Smart Phone: www.articlesonpeace.com (Interfaith) 5 Contents PART I 1. The UN World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) and its Initiator Jordan's King H.M. Abdullah II as the WORLD HARMONY CREATOR in GHA Qualification …8 2. Harmony of Religions as Necessary Condition of Global Social Harmony and World Peace …10 3. Facts of Interfaith Harmony …11 APJ Abdul Kalam. The Great City of Harmony. Poem …13 Dmitry Delyukin. Penang: Island of Interfaith Harmony …14 Yehuda Stolov. Interfaith Harmony among Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem …15 Reimon Bachika. Interfaith Harmony in Japan …17 A.K. Merchant. Dialogue for Harmony, Diversity & Spirituality—the Baha’i Way …18 Pravat K. Dhal. Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Practice in the Interfaith Harmony …23 Nina Meyerhof. Interfaith Harmony among the COE World Children …26 Maitreyee B. Roy. Om Santi, Om Shanti, Om Shantihi: Hindu Concepts of Eternal Peace and Harmony …27 Ayo Ayoola-Amale. Interfaith Harmony in Nigeria …29 Bruce L. Cook. Personal Examples of Interfaith Harmony …32 Glenn T. Martin. on My Multi-faith Religious Experience …33 Laj Utreja. Lifetime Achievements of Interfaith Mission Service in Huntsville, AL, USA …34 Varant Z. Seropian. The Challenges to Interfaith Harmony in the Middle East and their Responses …38 Chintamani Yogi. Interfaith Movement and Current Politics in Nepal …40 Sunita Singh Sengupta. Living the Interfaith Harmony: Experiences of Sri Ramakrishna …42 Daurenbek Aubakir. Archaic Syncretism of Harmony in the Ancient Religion of Tengri …45 Tatomir Ion-Marius. Planting the Holy Thorn and Peace Pole in Glastonbury Town …48 4. Internal Harmony Potential of Different Religions …50 Tholana A. Chakravarthy. The Winds of Interfaith Harmony. Poem …50 Bruce L. Cook. Religious Congress in Chicago in 1893 as the Beginning of Conscious Interfaith Harmony …51 Rene Wadlow. The Faiths of the Past and the Challenges of the Future: The Start of Interfaith Efforts …54 Rudolf Siebert. The Golden Rule of Religions and Interfaith Harmony …56 Bishnu Pathak. Principles of Religious and Interfaith Harmony …58 Julia Budnikova. Nicholas Roerich on Interfaith Harmony and Common Principles of Spiritual Teachings …60 Leo Semashko. Dalai Lama: Need for Religious Harmony …63 Rudolf Siebert. The Realization of Harmony in Religion, Philosophy, and Science …64 Charles Mercieca. World Religions and Interfaith Harmony …69 Glen T. Martin. Interfaith Harmony and the Earth Federation Movement …70 Ammar Banni. Multiculturalism of Interfaith Harmony …74 Uraz