Compassion plaque unveiled at Ramallah Quaker meeting

Ramallah Friends endorse global call for compassion

A plaque similar to the one hung in Ramallah. | Photo: Photo: Kevin Wolf, AP Images for TED Prize.

Ramallah Friends were among the first to endorse Karen Armstrong’s new Charter for Compassion. A Charter plaque was unveiled at their Meeting house on 12 November.  The charter is an attempt by religious writer and commentator Armstrong to bring together the highest common principles of the world’s faiths., She began the project after winning last year’s TED prize awarded by the influential Technology, Entertainment, Design community in 2008.

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