November 30, 2007

Azan echoed from New York's Church

This is the news from ANTARA. Kinda late posting actually, because it happened on November 19th, 2007. Its okay, though... It is still November ^__^

The azan, a moslem's way of calling their people to pray, was sounded by Christopher Herbert with his bariton, echoed from Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, New York. The azan itself was part of the program of Three Parties Dialog between Christians, Jewish, and Moslems.
The theme of the dialog was "Perspective of Three Religions", with speakers from Indonesian Moslem, Syamsi Ali, Jewish Rabbi, Peter J. Rubinstein, and on behalf of the Marble Collegiate Church congregation, Priest Edwin G. Mulder.

The Marble Collegiate Church, that was established on 1854, was filled with hundreds of church congregation and some Moslems and Jewish.

It's always good to know when people can appreciate the difference and sit together as brothers. As Bible stated in Psalm 133:1-3;
"...See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron’s face: coming down to the edge of his robe;
Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever..."



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