INTERNATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE FOR RELIGIOUS PEACE
Organized by Embrace Foundation in 1985 at the United Nations Chapel. Religious leaders from around the world representing the: Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish,
Buddhist, Sufi, Baha'i, Jain, Sikh and Zoroastrian traditions (encompassing many denominations) addressed the media on issues of objective reporting in areas of
conflict. They also emphasized the need for less sensationalism and more positivism in news reporting worldwide.
SPECIAL HONORARY FOUNDING MEMBERS
Advisory& Lecture Board
(names by alphabetical order)
Sheikh Mubarak Ahmed, Islam, Pakistan, Africa, USA
Mother Tessa Bielecki, Christianity-Catholic, USA & Canada
Rev. Beatrice Blair, Christianity-Protestant
Dr. Richard Boeke, Unitarian Universalist
Rev. Chitrabhanu, Jainism, India
Rabbi Meir Fund, Judaism - Hasidic
Khambo Lama Kh.Gaadan, Mahayana Buddhism, Mongolia
Rabbi Joseph H. Gelberman, Judaism, Interfaith Seminary, USA
Dr. (Sister) Marie Goldstein, RHSM, Christianity-Catholic, Jerusalem
Dr. Fung Hu-hsiang, Confucianism, Taiwan, ROC
Dr. P. Jayaraman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India, USA
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Sufi Order in the West, USA & Europe
Dr. Mahesh Mehta, Hinduism, US & India
Venerable K. Piyatissa, Theravada Buddhism, Sri Lanka
His Holiness Tri Rinpoche, Gelupa Order, Tibetan Buddhism, India
Father Herbert Rogers, S.J., Christianity-Catholicism
Swami Satchidananda, Hinduism, Yoga, International
Rabbi Zalman Schachter, Judaism, USA & Israel
Dr. Gopal Singh, Sikhism, India
Rev. Brian Smeatan, Christianity Protestant, Republic of Ireland
Rabbi Ronald Sobel, Reform Judaism
Rev. Jomyo Tanaka San, Shingon Buddhism, Japan, Europe, USA
Dr. Thich Huyen-Vi, Vietnamese Buddhism, France
John Yungblut, Society of Friends
Dr. K.D. Irani, Zoroastrianism
Embrace Foundation is a non-profit,
educational foundation set up to
create better understanding
between people of different
religions, cultures, traditions and
world philosophies.
Embrace Foundation works to bring
leaders and scholars of world-wide
religions, cultures and philosophies
together by sponsoring forums,
seminars, lectures and developing
an international exchange program.
Embrace Foundation is particularly
concerned with reaching the world
public through the media.
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Embrace encourages all who can
do so, to learn about other
traditions and cultures by traveling
as “Grassroots Diplomats.” We
hope that people every where
become life long students of our
world-wide humanity.
“ In every man there is something
wherein I may learn of him, and in
that I am his pupil.”
R.W.Emerson