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Extremism and the Negative Impact on Religious Understanding

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Center For Interfaith Affairs, Philadelphia

Old St. Joseph’s Church (Wednesday, May 13th) – Peace Islands Institute held an interfaith program with the Philadelphia Interfaith Community at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia. The program was a dinner and talk, the subject of which was “Extremism and the Negative Impact on Religious Understanding”. Imam Bekir Aksoy, gave a historical overview of and sociological perspective of the causes of extremism in religion and society.

Participants enjoyed dinner, and had a discussion as well as a question and answer session.​

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