Article December 4, 1995 Issue

Praying for change

by Kim Shippey

During July and August, hundreds of people met at a conference center at Caux in Switzerland to discuss the importance of absolute standards of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love in achieving personal and global change. And they spoke openly about God's role in bringing about this change.

The final session, on "Regions in Crisis, Regions in Recovery—Learning from One Another," brought participants from fifty-seven countries, including a Brazillian taxi driver, a Lebanese judge, the Governor General of Jamaica (with forty others from that country), a rabbi from Jerusalem, South African university professors, a Mohawk chief from Canada, students from many parts of Europe (including Croatia and Albania), a French veterinary surgeon, and more than four hundred others.

Three Christian Science practitioners attended this five-day symposium, and shared some of their impressions with the Sentinel.

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