World Religions in Greater Boston: Home

Today, members of the Boston Meditation Group comprise a diversity of countries, languages, religions, races, and ages. What brings us together is our search for God, which we find in our meditation practice and study of Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings. We enjoy this special form of fellowship and warmly welcome others to join us.

The Commission enforces two ordinances: the Cambridge Human Rights Ordinance, chapter 2.76 and the Cambridge Fair Housing Ordinance, chapter 14.04. We also work with MCAD to enforce MGL chapter 151B and 151C and other chapters, the ADA, Title VII, and with HUD to enforce FFHA. These laws prohibit discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, gender, physical and mental disability, sexual orientation, religion, age, family status, military status, and source of income.

The Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology promotes structures and practices that empower women and honor diversity. … Ecumenical in its activities, the Center’s primary goals are in the four following areas: Research ...; Education ...; Support...; and Advocacy.

To empower Chinese families in and around Boston, with a focus on immigrant communities, bridging cultures and generations with a holistic Christian approach.

We are the Boston branch of a worldwide organization that is dedicated to helping people bring into their daily lives their most positive energy and deepest personal values. The vehicle for exploring, and emerging, these inner resources is Raja Yoga meditation.

A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology. - L Ron. Hubbard

The Sufi Order International of Greater Boston Constellation of Light is devoted to meditation instruction, spiritual growth, and the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and Pir Zia Inayat Khan. It sponsors classes and events occurring in Boston, Massachusetts and throughout southeastern New England at a number of locations - a constellation of lights. It is a branch of the Sufi Order International, an interfaith international organization.

In 1978 Khaniqahi Nimatullahi House of Sufism was organized and opened by then Master of the Nimatullahi Order, Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh. Since that time the House of Sufism in Boston’s South End has been a meeting place for the those interested in the spiritual teachings of the Sufi Path. Gatherings for meditation are twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays.

For almost forty years, the Institute for Philosophy and Religion has been a unique interdisciplinary forum for the exploration of issues at the intersection of philosophy, religion and public life. Its origins lie in a group of Boston University philosophers (the Personalists) who were among the teachers of Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University, and over the years the Institute's programs have reflected broad concerns such as the promotion of social justice, the foundation of pluralistic societies and the deepest questions about life as reflected in theological and philosophical discourse.

Through the last 20 years, Scientology Volunteer Ministers have provided emergency service at 126 worst-case disaster sites. A Scientology Volunteer Minister is a person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by helping restore purpose, truth, and spiritual values to the lives of others.

The mission of the Council is to: 1. to nourish the spirit of understanding and cooperation among the diverse religious institutions and people of faith in the Duxbury community, and to be a visible example of tolerance and respect between faiths;

Interfaith Social Services was established in 1947 as a cooperative effort of Protestant churches in Quincy to provide much needed counseling and child placement services for children in trouble.

Caleb owns and operates affordable housing, from elderly complexes to low-to-moderate income multi-family projects throughout New England.

To provide hope to survivors and prevent domestic violence in Asian families and communities.

ECCO’s mission is to develop leadership to build power and collaboration among families and communities on the North Shore. We are guided by a firm belief in the democratic principle that all people are created equal and have the right to make decisions about important issues affecting their neighborhoods.

The mission of the Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry is to provide emergency food supplies to Wakefield residents who need a helping hand regardless of religious affiliation, if any.

The primary aim of our campus ministry is to help students to develop intellectual understanding of their faith, and to deepen their self-knowledge and their relationship with themselves, with God, and with others. In this, our aim is to help students cultivate integration of their personhood, which is an essential quality of emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being as well as success in their studies. We encourage people to be faithful to their own heritage of faith and to develop and deepen their faith journey by exploring, welcoming, and appreciating diversity.

The Harvard College Interfaith Council (HCIC) was founded in 2004 by a group of students who sought to promote greater awareness and understanding of inter-religious issues within the Harvard community. Today, HCIC keeps this original goal alive by facilitating interfaith dialogue, understanding of and exposure to different faiths, and interfaith networking for community service initiatives. HCIC also provides a forum through which members may focus on both the similarities between all religions, as well as their important differences. The Council includes individuals from a variety of faith traditions; members consist of those from Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian, agnostic and atheist backgrounds.

RUAH aims to increase understanding among religious traditions, to provide spiritual sustenance to all, and to create peace one person at a time.

Faith Into Action Together (F.I.A.T.), now in its eighth year, is a program of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless. It aims to educate, train, organize and mobilize members of faith communities across the State to become involved in the public policy campaigns of the Coalition. These campaigns are directed towards finding more permanent solutions to prevent and end homelessness by addressing its root causes. It advocates for: accessible services, homelessness prevention and the creation of more decent and permanently affordable housing for those who have the greatest need.