The Guadalajara Reporter

Unity in diversity: hundreds gather for multicultural peace confab

Representatives of many major religions joined hands in Guadalajara last week in an event that allowed them to learn about one another and even participate in the rites and rituals of different faiths.

Hundreds of people from a dozen countries participated in the five-day Universal Multicultural Dialog, which also included workshops, panel discussions and conferences by representatives of numerous religions and spiritual movements.

The Dialog was organized by Carpe Diem, an association founded in Guadalajara by a mixed group of humanists that include an architect, a psychologist, a businessman, a linguist, an Anglican priest and Jesuit Jorge Manzano Vargas of the ITESO university.  It was held at the Museum of Western Archaeology, housed in a venerable 18th century building which once served as a convent for Augustinian nuns.

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