InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
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Non-profit organization | |
Headquarters | 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001 |
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Services | Interfaith dialogue |
Key people | Reverend Clark Lobenstine (Executive Director 1979-2014), Rabbi Gerald Serotta (Executive Director 2014 - 2020), Reverend David Lindsey (Executive Director 2020 - present) |
Website | www.ifcmw.org |
The InterFaith Council of Metropolitan Washington (IFC or IFCMW) is an
History
In an interview with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs in 2011, Executive Director Lobenstine said, "The Interfaith Conference was founded by the Islamic, Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish communities and was the first organization to engage the Islamic community back in a metropolitan area in both interfaith dialogue and interfaith collaboration for justice in 1978. Since then Baháʼí, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Latter Day Saint, Sikh, and Zoroastrian believers have joined. We now represent eleven faith-based communities. The founders before I started were clear that the Conference wouldn’t do service, but rather enact justice by building a just community as well as through interfaith dialogue. These principles continue to guide us still and our Center for Nurturing Understanding is focused on applying those ideals to young people."[2]
IFC Member faiths
- Baháʼí
- Buddhist
- Hindu
- Islamic
- Jain
- Jewish
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Protestant
- Roman Catholic
- Sikh
- Zoroastrian
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