Summary Description of CIE's Activities

From the beginning of the year 2000, CIE has been celebrating the presence and activity in St. Cloud of the various wisdom/spiritual traditions of the world. Through such celebration in a world of religious, cultural, and ethnic strife CIE seeks to kindle a lamp rather than curse the darkness.

During these past 2 ¾ years, by engaging in well over 225 activities of more than 40 different types, CIE has been relentlessly striving to promote understanding and harmony in this corner of Central Minnesota. In its third year, CIE inaugurated a brand new second phase of existence and activity. In this "second phase," our fledgling interfaith organization has been laying greater emphasis on the critical element in interfaith encounters