The Search for Meaning: Creative Responses to Depression
October 2007
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Interfaith Conferences in Cuba and Bali
Bali
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SGI-Mexico General Director Roberto Rios and Youth Division Chief Daisuke Inoue represented the SGI and the Buddhist worldview at the Fifth International Meeting on Socio-religious Studies in Havana, Cuba, from July 10-12.
Some 200 religious leaders, economists, scientists and scholars from 14 countries in the Americas, Africa and Europe attended workshops, lectures and panel discussions on topics such as "Dialogue, Integration and Macroecumenism," "Eastern Religions in the West," "Religion, Gender and Family" and "Daily Life and Religion."
Institute of Oriental Philosophy (IOP) Director Yoichi Kawada was invited to represent the Buddhist worldview at an international interfaith conference on June 12, in Bali, Indonesia. Titled "Tolerance Between Religions: A Blessing for All Creation," the summit provided a forum for some 100 representatives of world religions to discuss the elimination of violence and to appeal for religious tolerance.
