Dr. Gelvin began his talk by stating the demographical and geographical characteristics of Syria and illustrated how nearly 1.7 million people had to move out from their homes to neighboring…
The Santa Monica Synagogue and the Pacifica Institute—two separate communities, two separate backgrounds—took an inspirational step to build a bridge between the two communities through that universal language we call…
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man; these were the words of a famous singer. Adopting from these words, we ask, how many…
The gathering of two faiths during the whole month of Ramadan took place at Pacifica Institute in Orange County on July 26, 2013. The symbolic “breaking of the bread” between…
Pacifica Institute’s youth group and a group of youth from the Focolare Movement came together to turn interfaith partnership and friendship into interfaith action ( August 17, 2013) Pacifica Institute’s…
Distinguished speaker of the night, Dr. Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha, started with these words of reflection, “Interreligious dialogue is a topic that is very dear to my heart,” and spoke of the…
This year, the City of Irvine hosted the 12th Annual Global Village Festival on September 29, 2013 at the Bill Barber Park. This year, the City of Irvine hosted the…
Pacifica Institute hosted the City of Costa Mesa Mayor Jim Reigheimer on its talk series on October 10, 2013 at the Irvine branch. He was elected to the Costa Mesa…
The Interfaith Conversations series provides the medium to learn from each other’s faiths, to reinforce and strengthen our selves as true and complete human beings. The season for Interfaith Conversations…
Latest stopover in promotion event series of Islam without Extremes by journalist-author Mustafa Akyol was Salt Lake City. The event by Pacifica Institute Utah Branch at Marriott City Center saw…