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Foreword

In January 1991, the Ecumenical International Center was created in Bucharest,
as a non-governmental, non-political, religious, social-cultural, non-lucrative
organization representing the clergy and laymen of various confessions and
ethnicities in Romania and abroad.

The Doctrine of the Ecumenical International Center is "Harmony," which is
generated from the belief that the rainbow law represents the moral law of respect
for each person's identity, because this is how things happen with the wonder of
the rainbow made up of so many colours melting happily in their unique glow,
each keeping its own seal.

Since 1993, the Ecumenical International Center operates under the auspices of
UNESCO - the National Commission of Romania.

The Ecumenical International Center is a system of ideological and pragmatic
projects designed to demonstrate that all religions and confessions in the world
have a great role to play in avoiding fundamentalism, starting from the
unanimously accepted premise that God is the same for every human being,
regardless of skin colour, ethnicity, or faith, especially in today's historical
conditions, characterized by religious based armed conflicts in different regions
of the world.

Ever since its first days of work, the Ecumenical International Center has been
firmly and persuasively committed to promoting practical and concrete ideas and
actions with the purpose of knowing, conciliating, understanding and
collaboration among all religious confessions within the country and abroad.

Ideally, the Center aims to contribute through its entire activity to the creation of
a spiritual climate of dialogue, understanding, collaboration and mutual respect
among all the cults and religions of the world, among all the people aware of
worshiping and serving the same God. To this end, the "International Academy
for World History, Culture and Religions Study" was set up, where great and
notorious university professors and academicians gave the society four
promotions of specialists in the field. The Center published the socio - cultural
magazine «Armonia».

Also, in 1998, the Center established "Inter-religious settlements", building an
Orthodox Christian church (founded by Dr. Ion Popescu) in Vulcana Bai,
Dambovita county, a synagogue for the Mosaic believers (founded by Ruby and
Michael Zimmeman), and a mosque for Muslim believers (founded by Leila and
Omar Akili), as symbols of the three great monotheistic religions of the world,
whose believers have been living in harmony for centuries in Romania, without

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