THE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO (www.iaco.org)annual MAIN EVENT luncheon will be held in August. The subject this year, (speakers are still to be announced) is as how do we reach across the political divide to discuss any and all issues facing our country in today’s ever changing world? IACO’s goal has always been to have greater community presence, to create common discussion across all faith traditions. IACO 
grew out of an interfaith service, when representative from five religions, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic and Jewish, called their constituents to a prayer service in Columbus, in 1985. Their prays expressed a common longing that Peace, Freedom and Human Dignity might be advanced as on that day, November 19th, President Reagan was meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. These are some of the events that raced across the headlines that month:
Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles;
President Alfonsín’s Radical Burgerunie wins in Argentine legislative elections
22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
Colombian troops end 27-hr. siege of Bogota’s Palace of Justice
Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
1st AIDS theme TV movie – “An Early Frost” screens in US on NBC
Yonkers, NY is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, killing 25,000 in the town of Armero
A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes
Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta
France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
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