TOWARDS A GLOBAL ETHIC:An Initial DeclarationNOTE: This interfaith declaration is the result of a two-yearconsultation among approximately two hundred scholars andtheologians from many of the world's communities of faith. OnSeptember 2-4, 1993, the document was discussed by an assembly of
religious and spiritual leaders meeting as part of the 1993
Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago. Respected leaders
from all the world's major faiths signed the "Declaration",
agreeing that it represents an initial effort -- a point of
beginning for a world sorely in need of ethical consensus. The
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and those who
have endorsed this text offer it to the world as an initial
statement of the rules for living on which the world's religions
can agree.
Copyright 1993 The Council for a Parliament of the World's
Religions. Reprinted with permission. CPWR, PO Box 1630, Chicago,
IL 60690 USA