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ARRANGEMENTS are now approaching completion for the World Congress of Faiths, which from July 3 until July 18 will meet in London to discuss “World Fellowship”. The sessions of the Congress, to which only members will be admitted, will take place at University College, Gower Street, W.C.I; but there will also be a series of public meetings at Queen's Hall, Langham Place, W.I, to which the general public will be admitted by tickets, which may be purchased. The main objective of the Congress is to be neither the appraisement of the various religions of the world, nor any attempt to bring about their fusion, but the discussion of ways and means by which the chief religions of the world, each retaining its individuality, may co-operate in a fellowship of the closest unity to eliminate the passions leading to war, economic injustice and racial and religious antagonisms. Communications dealing with various aspects of the problems which arise will be presented in twenty sessions of the Congress by representatives of the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Moslem and independent faiths. Among those who have promised their co-operation either from the chair, as readers of papers or by opening debate are H.H. the Aga Khan, Sir E. Denison Ross, the Chief Rabbi, Prof. Nicolas Berdaieff, Prof. S. N. Das Gupta, Dr. Cyril Bailey, H. E. Sheikh Al-Maraghi and Sir Abdul Qadir. A paper by the late Prof. J. S. Haldane on “Science and Religion” will be read. Of the public meetings, the first will be a meeting of welcome and the last a retrospect and summation of results, while the remaining two will be devoted to expositions of “The Supreme Spiritual Ideal” as viewed in Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and independent thought. The international president of the Congress is H.H. the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda, and the chairman of the British National Council Sir Francis Young-husband. The members of the Congress will be received by the Marquis of Zetland on behalf of His Majesty's Government at Lancaster House, St. James's, on July 8, and a reception will be given by Sir Francis Younghusband in the garden of the Royal Geographical Society on July 4. Particulars of membership, etc., may be obtained from the Organising Secretary, 17 Bedford Square, London, W.C.1.
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” World Fellowship”. Nature 137, 977 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137977a0
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