The Dialogue Institute is excited to announce a special fundraiser in partnership with Philadelphia-area Ten Thousand Villages stores on Tuesday, December 15, 3-7 pm.

When I told my friends that I would go and stay in the United States for four months, I received everything from congratulations to warnings, and all of these responses made sense to me.

A dozen persons dressed in white and wearing wings moved in deliberate, slow steps through the halls of the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some played lyre music as the majority simply smiled at those they passed, creating a sense of peace and care befitting the angels. Nearby, the Sikh community generated a moving sense of generosity and hospitality as they served thousands a delicious and free lunch.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

• DI staff led a lively workshop - called Dialogue Across Difference: Skills for Peacemaking & Global Citizenship - for about 20 participants on September 17. The workshop was featured as part of both Global Philly 2015 and Peace Day Philly events around the city.

As part of both Global Philly 2015 and Peace Day Philly events across the Philadelphia area, the Dialogue Institute hosted a free introductory workshop, Dialogue Across Difference: Skills for Peacemaking and Global Citizenship, on September 17, 2015.

The Dialogue Institute is pleased to welcome Farinia Fianto, a Community Solutions Program fellow from Indonesia, who will be serving as an intern for the fall semester.

DI Founder and President Leonard Swidler will be one of the featured panelists at the upcoming conference, Nostra Aetate and the Future of Interreligious Dialogue, October 11-13, 2015, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Dialogue Institute Founder and President, Leonard Swidler, and Executive Director, Rebecca Mays, will lead a workshop at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions, October 15-19, 2015, on "Writing a Global Ethic from the Grassroots."

The Dialogue Institute is proud to have co-sponsored the 4th Interfaith Youth Forum, held in Surabaya, Indonesia, August 7-11. This year's theme was "Rujak: Harmony in Diversity."

The Dialogue Institute concluded its 10th Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) for Student Leaders on Religious Pluralism in the United States on August 9, with a final session in Washington, D.C. Twenty students from the Middle East (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey) returned to their home countries following an intensive five-week program focused on religious pluralism and democracy - including four weeks in Philadelphia and a week-long study tour in Atlanta, North Carolina and Washington, D.C.