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Tuesday 11 Aug 2015 - 12:34 Makkah mean time-26-10-1436
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Boston, (IINA) - Promoting understanding, a Boston interfaith camp gathers youths from different faiths to bridge gaps and explore cultural and religious differences, as well as tackling fraught relationships among followers of three faiths, according to media reports.
The 10-day summer event at Camp Merrowvista in New Hampshire aims to promote religious understanding and tolerance through inviting children to know peers from different cultures.
I am in a safe place’’ to discuss religion, participant Abu Tair told The Boston Globe, “Because everyone needs peace and wants peace.”
Participants, aged 12 and 13, were encouraged to share confusion and fears over their religious identities.
“To put yourself out there and talk about really personal beliefs; to tell your story, often not in their native languages, to your peers, is so brave,” Sindy Wayne, incoming executive director of Kids4Peace Boston, told the Boston Globe on Monday.
Wayne was talking about Kids4Peace Boston youth camp that was attended by two-dozen children from Boston and Jerusalem.
Besides visiting prayer services in Boston, the young participants took part in leadership groups, which aim at fostering friendships and mutual appreciation regardless of religious affiliation.
Other activities navigated the historically fraught relationships among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
On Sunday, the camp was concluded with a celebration at the Temple Beth Zion in Brookline and children later on swarmed around the Synagogue to take selfies in their last day at the camp. They were also offered food as well as camp souvenirs, such as T-shirts and photos.
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