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Watch Webinar to celebrate the 2023 Parliament of World’s Religions

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A group from the Mary Ward Family attended the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions held in Chicago 14-18 August. This unique experience of religions gathering to celebrate their diversity and work together to address the big problems of our time is worth sharing as widely as possible. We invite you to a webinar where

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