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As a result of the first World Congress of Faiths held in London in July 1936 (see NATURE, 138, 1; 155) a Continuation Movement to promote further the objects of the Congress was inaugurated with the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda as international president and Sir Francis Younghusband as chairman. It is now announced that a week-end intensive Congress will be held at Oxford on July 23-27, when the subject for deliberation will be “The World's Need of Religion”. Addresses for discussion will be delivered by members from the different religions, and devotional meetings will be led by representatives of the various faiths. A symposium on “Can Politics replace Religion?” will be conducted from three distinctive points of view, and at a public meeting to be held in the Oxford Town Hall on the evening of July 24 addresses will be given on the subject of “The World's Need of Religion”. It may be recalled that the Congress was organized to promote a spirit of fellowship among mankind through religion, and “to awaken and develop a world loyalty, while allowing full play for the diversity of men, nations and faiths”. It is, therefore, essentially a movement that is both international and inter-denominational in the broadest sense of the term.
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World Congress of Faiths (Continuation Movement). Nature 139, 662 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139662a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139662a0