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25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE
SILSILAH BULLETIN

January - April 2010 issue
May - August 2010 issue




The news "Oasis of Dialogue and Peace" is promoted by Silsilah Dialogue Movement, published every week in a local newspaper in Zamboanga City and envoys through the net to share our expriences in Dialogue and Peace!

1st Week - September 1, 2010

IN MEMORY OF FR. ANTIMO, A SILENT HERO OF SILSILAH and the
HARMONY CHAIN INITIATIVE

The Silsilah Dialogue Movement, and the Harmony Chain, pay tribute to Fr. Antimo Villano, PIME, who passed way on August 25, 2010. READ MORE

4th Week - August 25, 2010

Virtues needed in a culture of dialogue

(Prof. Randy David delivered a paper at the gathering on the occasion of IFCL’s 10th anniversary on August 7, 2010. This is an excerpt from the last part of the paper.)

Let me offer what I think are the virtues in leaders who could serve as living instruments of a culture of dialogue.

TOLERANCE. The capacity to accept difference and not to feel threatened by it. The world that is emerging will be one where people of various faiths, languages, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and tastes will have to live and work in close proximity with one another, or face the prospect of dying in the battlefields of prejudice. READ MORE

3rd Week - August 18, 2010

Narcissism of Small Differences

(Prof. Randy David delivered a paper at the gathering on the occasion of IFCL’s 10th anniversary on August 7, 2010. This is an excerpt from the first part of the paper.)

Many of our politicians [and our people] are trapped in the pernicious attitude that the great psychologist Sigmund Freud once called “the narcissism of small differences.” This is a fascinating concept that illuminates the dark foundations of our everyday biases [and which] has worked as a huge stumbling block to tolerance and dialogue in our daily lives. READ MORE

2nd Week - August 11, 2010

The Inter-Faith Council of Leaders - Walking the Path of
Dialogue for Ten Years

The capacious Celebrity Hall of the Grand Astoria Hotel in Zamboanga City was filled by over 200 members and friends of the Inter-Faith Council of Leaders (IFCL). The occasion was the celebration on August 7, 2010 of the 10th Anniversary of IFCL, and members and friends came together to celebrate, to remember, and to learn. READ MORE