The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion is dedicated to studying, learning from, and collaborating with religious communities worldwide for the common good.| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion is dedicated to studying, learning from, and collaborating with religious communities worldwide for the common good.| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion is dedicated to studying, learning from, and collaborating with religious communities worldwide for the common good.| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
Seiko Kanda, a 2020 graduate of the Keough School’s Master of Global Affairs program, shares how his education prepared him for a career in the nongovernmental organization sector — and how it deepened his understanding of religion and its role in global development and humanitarian work.| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion is dedicated to studying, learning from, and collaborating with religious communities worldwide for the common good.| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
A recent intercultural encounter in Rome enabled Notre Dame students to learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by meeting and talking with people who have lived through it. The trip, which built upon a Notre Dame class and a related Notre Dame Forum Series, reflects the University's larger focus on civil dialogue and the empathetic, people-first approach it has taken to teaching and learning about the conflict.| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
Notre Dame student Jonathan Mendez takes…| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion is pleased to announce a Spring 2025 program focused on Shi’a-Catholic Dialogue, to tackle global challenges at the intersection of religion, ethics, and democracy. The program promotes the goals outlined by the University of Notre Dame’s initiative…| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
Several distinguished experts from the University of Notre Dame gathered Dec. 4 at the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium to discuss their personal and professional connections to the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine. This was the third event in the Israel-Palestine Series of the 2024-25 Notre Dame Forum on “What Do We Owe Each Other?”| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
H.B. Cardinal Pizzaballa with the Notre Dame team that included Lisa Caulfield, director of Notre Dame Kylemore, Daniel Schwake, director of Notre Dame…| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
Peacebuilding activists Nidal Foqaha, Tehila Wenger and Ezzeldeen Masri joined the University of Notre Dame’s Lisa Schirch on Nov. 11 for a discussion in DeBartolo Hall about how to resolve the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in a way that provides peace, security and equal rights for all people living in the region. The event was the second in the Israel-Palestine Series of the 2024-25 Notre Dame Forum on “What Do We Owe Each Other?”| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
"So, the external markers of Sikhism date to Guru Gobind Singh, where he says, “you are going to be fearless. And to be fearless, you are going to stand out. You can never deny who you are.” In simplified language, that's the origin of the uncut hair and turban for men, and to some extent, for women. The sword, another such marker, all Sikhs would agree, is a symbol of self-defense, but also of standing up against oppression of any kind. Now from there things got worse in the sense that a...| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
"You also were asking where the title Bad Catholics, Good Trouble came from and you're right, there's a story there. It actually starts with an academic article that I wrote for the journal Religion and American Culture. And that article was about the hundreds and hundreds of white Catholics in Chicago who wrote letters to the Archdiocese to express how outraged they were that the Church was supporting the civil rights movement. And the people who wrote these letters - many of which were over...| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
At the root of the Catholic Worker here locally is our work on housing. I firmly believe that housing is a human right and human duty that serves the common good. Everyone ought to be housed and if we all came together as human beings - or even just here in this local community of South Bend together with Notre Dame - we could house everyone who needs to be housed. There's an invitation in the Catholic social tradition to see these basic issues of need and vulnerability through a lens of God'...| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
This Fall the Ansari Institute is pleased to offer three book talks so that our growing community of learners can engage with scholars of depth and interest on a variety of topics. Each of these talks will be offered in the reading room on the second floor of the Hammes Notre Dame BookStore. There…| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
"Just last night I was on the campus of Northwestern speaking to a group of students and many of them were the protest leaders, and I shared with them that the key to moving the world forward is finding common ground. When you find common ground, that's the only way that you can move to higher ground. You can't get to higher ground all by yourself. I also shared with them that I was very proud of them and the college president for coming to an agreement to end the protest and to honor many of...| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
Distinguished scholars Hussein Ibish and David Myers joined the University of Notre Dame’s Maura Policelli on Sept. 25 at DeBartolo Hall for a discussion addressing the approaching first anniversary of the Hamas attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The event began the Israel-Palestine Series of the 2024-25 Notre Dame Forum on “What Do We Owe Each Other?”| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
I have been blessed with excellent formation and many opportunities, but the Catholic World Fellowship provided a completely different experience of the Catholic spiritual life. Being in Rome in particular, at the very heart of Catholicism, was powerful and offered some unique insights. In the shadow of the Holy See stand countless churches that house the bodies of some of the holiest saints to have ever lived.| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
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"I have to say, I come from a church that is always talking about evangelism and the Protestant churches in Northern Ireland are very proselytism driven and evangelism driven. It is not a good mix. Because they engage with you for the purpose of converting you. “I want to make you me, and when you are me and you accept my politics and my religion, we will all be happy.” Well, that is not a decent way to behave. That is outrageously unsympathetic to people's human rights, to their conscien...| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
"I think when you start to see the heart of people, you realize the same parts or the same hurts or the same thought process – while they might look different overseas – they're very similar to what we have here. So I think how people are responding to immigration or homelessness or race, if we really open our eyes and have an honest look, we have a lot of those same walls. They might not be physical walls like I saw in Israel and Palestine but, there are walls in our communities, in our ...| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News
Dr. Charles PowellChange is afoot at the Ansari Institute.…| Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion | News