Religious Leaders Call for Interfaith FastWe call on all Americans to join in fasting from dawn to dusk on Monday, October 8, to call for an end to the Iraq War. On this day, people of faith in local communities across our nation will act as catalysts to transform the meaning of the day from one of conquest to community and from violence to reverence. Just as Isaiah called the People Israel to hear the Yom Kippur fast as God’s call to feed the hungry, just as Jesus fasted in the wilderness, just as Christians through Lenten fasting and Muslims through Ramadan fasting have focused on spiritual transformation, just as Mohandas Gandhi, Cesar Chavez and others drew on fasting to change the course of history, so we call on all our communities of faith to draw now on fasting as a path toward inner spiritual transformation and outward social transformation.
Ending this war can become the first step toward a policy that embodies a deeper, broader sense of generosity and community at home and in the world.
| Rev. Robert Edgar Former General Secretary National Council of Churches USA
| Rabbi Arthur Waskow The Shalom Center |
| Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed National Director Islamic Society of North America
| Rev. Michael Livingston President National Council of Churches USA |
| Rabbi Shirley Idelson Dean Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
| Mary Ellen McNish General Secretary American Friends Service Committee |
| Rev. William Sinkford Executive Director Unitarian Universalist Association
| Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia Moderator Religions for Peace, USA |
| Nihad Awad Executive Director Council on American Islamic Relations
| Rt. Rev. C. Christopher Epting |
2 comments:
I would like to try it. I have always wanted to try fasting.
Thanks Ho, I hope we can try coming together to talk about our feelings during the fast. Karl
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