Released on = February 9, 2007, 2:10 am

Press Release Author = Stories of Faith Ltd.

Industry = Media

Press Release Summary = William F. Vendley, Secretary General of Religions for Peace
(WCRP, New York) has been appointed a member of the Stories of Faith Advisory Board.


Press Release Body = William F. Vendley, Secretary General of Religions for Peace
(WCRP, New York) has been appointed a member of the Stories of Faith Advisory Board.
Patron of the Stories of Faith media project is the Dalai Lama. This project “is a
vivid and effective way to bring the messages of peace and understanding to a
greater audience”, said Vendley. The project, which was initiated by the German film
producers Wolfram R. Bauer and Carola Klessen, goes out to facilitate knowledge
about the large world religions to an international audience

The theologian Dr. Vendley is a consultant to the United Nations and has served as a
professor and dean in graduate schools of theology. Vendley has been awarded several
prizes for religion and human rights, and serves at the Board of the World Council
of Religions for Peace. This multireligious organization is solely dedicated to
promoting collaboration among the world’s religious communities. He also serves as
the organization’s chief executive officer, overseeing the international secretariat
in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, West and East Africa, and
Asia.
He coordinates the international activities and projects of Religions for Peace’s
inter-religious councils and affiliated groups in seventy national and four regions
around the world. Under Vendley’s leadership, Religions for Peace and its local
affiliates have helped to mediate violent conflicts in the Balkans, West Africa, and
the Horn of Africa, and supported and further engaged religious communities in
collaborative work to assist the more than 12 million orphans of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Current areas of focus include Iraq, the Middle East, Sudan, and the Korean
Peninsula.

Further members of the Advisory Board to Stories of Faith Ltd., Dublin
(www.stories-of-faith.com) are the political scientist Prof. Bassam Tibi from
Cornell University (New York), Prof. Karl-Josef Kuschel, Vice President of the
Global Ethics Foundation (Tuebingen) and Peter Ruof, international business
executive and co-founder of CDS International, New York (Carl Duisberg Society) and
the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels.

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