These words from the most recent Chapter Acts of the international Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary state the SNJMs' desire to get to know other cultures and religious traditions:

We experience the richness that comes from sharing between cultures and religions. At the same time, we are faced with intercultural and interreligious conflict that threatens our world with violence and war.

Therefore we will educate ourselves to become more sensitive to other faiths and cultures to promote better dialogue; create or engage in reflection and sharing groups to gain a better understanding of cultural and interreligious commonalities and differences.

Resources
Click here to find out how one Sister and her colleagues are learning to see Judaism anew
Click here to read about a Sister's work with a Muslim community in the Pacific Northwest
LCWR Position Paper by Joan Kirby, RCSJ, "Inter-Religious Dialogue for Peace"
Views of the Church on other Christian denominations and other religions (Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, www.religioustolerance.org)
Catholic/Lutheran dialogue (Wikipedia article)
Black Catholic Congress
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Hispanic Affairs
Catholic Church Dialogue with Followers of African Traditional Religion: Progress and Challenge
Becoming International, Multicultural Church: How First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church of Newark, NJ, became an International, Multicultural Church, by retired pastor Glenn Hatfield.
Cross Cultural Negotiations by Neil Payne
Spirituality, Religion, Culture, and Peace: Interreligious Dialogue home page
Universal Peace Federation home page
Interreligious Articles on Peace: The Promise of Interreligious Dialogue for a World in Conflict, by Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, M.Afr.
A Foot in Both Places: Culture and Community at the Crossroads of War
Multicultural Methodologies in Second Language Acquisition: Integrating Global Responsibility, Peace Education, and Cross-Cultural Awareness