A group of 22 Roman Catholic, Jewish and Protestant clergymen left here last night on a 22-day peace mission that will take them around the world for meetings with leaders of Western and Eastern faiths to discuss how to unify their efforts for world peace. The immediate concerns of the mission are the war in Vietnam and the Middle East crisis.
The group, whose co-chairman is Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, will attend the interreligious symposium of peace in New Delhi from January 10 to 14; will meet with Pope Paul VI and the Vatican Peace Commission in Rome; and with Israeli Government and religious leaders in Jerusalem. They will confer in Geneva with officials of the United Nations, the World Council of Churches and the World Jewish Congress. In Istanbul they will meet with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Athenagoras I. They will also interview Buddhist and Catholic leaders in Vietnam and Japan.
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