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World Religion Day is an interfaith observance initiated in 1950 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, celebrated worldwide on the third Sunday in January each year. Though initiated in the United States, World Religion Day has come to be celebrated internationally. Its purpose is to promote the idea that the spiritual principles underlying the world's religions are harmonious, and to suggest that religions play a role in unifying humanity.〔 In April 2002, the Universal House of Justice, the international Bahá'í governing body, published a letter "To the World’s Religious Leaders", in which it was stated that interfaith discourse, if it is to contribute meaningfully to healing the ills that afflict a desperate humanity, must now address honestly ... the implications of the over-arching truth ... that God is one and that, beyond all diversity of cultural expression and human interpretation, religion is likewise one. ==History== The earliest observation entitled "World Peace Through World Religion" was in Portland, Maine at the Eastland Park Hotel in October 1947 with a talk by Firuz Kazemzadeh. In 1949 observances in various communities in the United States made the local newspapers in December called "World Religion Day".〔 * * * 〕 It was standardized across the United States by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States in December 1949 to be held January 15. It also began to be observed internationally starting as early as in Australia in 1950 in two cities,〔 * * 〕 and Bolivia in 1951. By 1958 Bahá'ís had gathered notices of events in a number of countries - sometimes attracting hundreds of people and sometimes overlapping with race amity priorities. In Laos for example, meetings were noted in 1958, 1959, and 1960, among many countries activities. In the Netherlands in 1962 it was noted in several cities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Religion Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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