Interfaith Delegations

Since it’s founding in 1965, the Appeal of Conscience Foundation has lead and hosted interfaith delegations to the United States and worldover to encourage the active engagement of religious leaders in advancing peaceful co-existence and mutual understanding.

1966

January 1, 1966

1st ACF Interfaith Group to Leningrad and Moscow. Jewish community at Moscow Choral Synagogue

10,000 prayer books and religious calendars for the Jewish Community requested and paid for by ACF. Met with VP Herbert Humphrey on January 8, 1966. Rabbi Arthur Scheier addresses members of Jewish Community at Moscow Choral On September 21, 1966. First Secretary of the Embassy of the Union of Soviet..Read More

January 2, 1966

1st Appeal of Conscience delegation to Vatican and Pope Paul VI

1967

December 9, 1967

Appeal of Conscience Delegation to Spain

“December 9-14, 1967” ACF interfaith delegation meets with officials in Spain regarding the challenges of non-Catholics in Spain. There are over 30,000 Protestants and 7500 Jews concerned with Article 17 which stipulated that non-Catholic religious groups submit a full list of their members by December 31, 1967. ACF challenged the..Read More

1970

June 1, 1970

After floods in Romania, ACF meets with Romanian Foreign Minister, Mr. Corneliu Manescu; Romanian Ambassador to the US, Corneliu Bogdan; Director of the American Department in the Foreign Ministry Mr. Virgil Constantinescu

July 22, 1970

ACF first delegation to Belfast and Dublin Ireland followed by meetings in London

Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Ambassador Duke, Father Campion, Dr. David HC Read established relationships with religious leaders and government officials in Belfast and Dublin Ireland and Great Britain

August 27, 1970

ACF Delegation travels to Romania for Relief of flood-stricken regions.

August 27-31, 1970 Met with President Nicolae Ceausescu regarding concerns of flood. The committee recommended supplying medicines and medical equipment. Members of the delegation include: Rabbi Arthur Scheier, Bishop Silas, Mr. William Duval, Secretary for the relief programe for Europe of the World Service of Churches, Mr. Victor Rockhill, VP..Read More

1971

December 1, 1971

ACF brings delegation from USSR to US

Delegation Members include: MetropolitanNikodim of Leningrad and Novograd; VP Aliabkarov of Muslim Organizations in USSR; Cantor Stiskin of Leningrad; Archbishop Jan Matulis of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Latvia; Monsignor Eesjovas Krivaytis, Administrator of the Vilna Archbishopric; Alexei Vladimirov, member of the Department of External Church Affairs, Moscow Patriarchate; Translator:..Read More

1972

June 21, 1972

ACF Delegation travels to Romania for the dedication of the Teatron 80 cobalt machine for the treatment of cancer in Cluj, Romania a gift of the American Flood Relief Committee (dedication 6/25/72).

6/21-26 1972 The machine, ordered from Atomic Energy of Canada is the only one of its kind in Eastern Europe. Members of the Delegation: Rabbi Arthur Scheier, Congressman Francis E. Dorn, Lawrence C. Leeds, Trustee ACF, Mr. John Mosler, Mr. and Mrs. John Gates (Senior VP of Pan American Airlines),..Read More

1974

June 1, 1974

ACF Delegation to USSR. ACF negotiates the study of 10 more rabbinical students in Hungary to later return to USSR after their studies

Rabbi Arthur Schneier and Father Thurston Davis, SJ. The agreement of the 10 students addresses the shortage of Rabbis in the Soviet Union. Estimated that 6 rabbis are serving 2 million Soviet Jews. Major cities like Kiev, Odessa, and Leningrad have no rabbis. ACF to absorb part of cost of..Read More

1975

June 1, 1975

ACF delegation to USSR negotiates the printing of Five Books of Moses in Russian in the Soviet Union. Approval received from Viktor N. Titov, newly appointed Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council for Religious Affairs. Authorization granted to reprint version published in Vilnius in 1914

Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Bishop Silas, Head of largest Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in US and Chief aide to H.E. Archbishop Iakovos; Reverend Donald Campion, SJ, Senior Editor “America” . Meeting held with Patriarch Pimen where the renewed interest by youth in religion was discussed, receiving an increase in applications for theological..Read More