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Hosted by Hanadi Doleh, ICNY Director for Community Partnerships Throughout New York, clergy members, lay leaders and faith-based activists from every faith tradition are working to create positive change for our own communities and the city as a whole. But all too often we find … [Read more...] about Be the Leader Your City Needs You to Be: Leadership Development through ICLA

Welcome to a special episode of Interfaith Matters, exploring New York City Council Resolution 1257, and the importance of religious diversity education in public schools. Resolution 1257 calls on the New York City Department of Education to offer age-appropriate religious … [Read more...] about Religious Literacy in NYC Public Schools – Listen, Learn, and Take Action!

In recent years, religious liberty has primarily been framed as a concern of conservative Christians in the United States, particularly in their opposition to reproductive and LGBTQ rights. But faith-based values are not the sole province of social conservatives, and Americans … [Read more...] about Whose Faith Matters? Protecting Religious Liberty for Everyone

We kick off Season Six of our #InterfaithMattersPodcast with a celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week (Feb. 1-7) and the United Nations' International Day of Human Fraternity (Feb. 4). In this episode, host AJ DeBonis and Rev. James Loughran, SA (Director of Graymoor … [Read more...] about Exploring Pope Francis’ Call for a Global “Culture of Encounter”

In this episode, #InterfaithMattersPodcast host AJ DeBonis talks with NYPD Clergy Outreach Unit Detective Mohamed Amen, who is also a member of the NYPD Muslim Officers Society. Det. Amen shares what the NYPD is doing to engage NYC's 8,000+ faith communities in working … [Read more...] about Det. Mohamed Amen on “NYC’s Many Faiths & the NYPD”