riddle@im4u.UUCP (08/15/85)
Interested in corresponding on religious matters with people from all over the world, many of whom don't speak English? There are a number of international organizations which are set up to help you do just that, using the international language Esperanto. BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND ORIENTAL STUDIES: Internacia Asocio de Bibliistoj kaj Orientalistoj (IABO), Piazza Duomo 4, I-48100 Ravenna, Italy. BAHAI: Bahaa Esperanto-Ligo (BEL), c/o Roan Orloff Stone, Desert Rose Mobil Home Park, 2500 East Aztec Ave. #35, Gallup, NM 87301, USA. BUDDHISM: Budhana Ligo Esperantista (BLE), Pf 1323, D-7292 Baiersbronn 1, West Germany. CATHOLICISM: Internacia Katolika Unui^go Esperantista (IKUE), Via Berni 9, I-00185 Roma RM, Italy. MORMONS: Por-Esperanta Mormonaro (PEM), c/o Paul R. Kern, 16 Wing St., Springfield, MA 01151, USA. PHILOSOPHY: Filozofia Asocio Tutmonda (FAT), rua Conselheiro Mafra 176, BR-88000 Florianopolis (SC), Brazil. PROTESTANTISM: Kristana Esperantista Ligo Internacia (KELI), Koningsmantel 4, NL-2403 HZ Alphen a/d Rijn, The Netherlands. QUAKERS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS): Kvakera Esperantista Societo (KES), p/a Frank Sharman, 6 Totland Grove, Chester CH2 2EY, Great Britain. In addition to the above organizations, it is possible to contact individual Esperantists who are interested in discussing Confucianism, Islam, Judaism, Oomoto, the Salvation Army, Scientology, Seventh Day Adventism, Spiritualism, Unitarianism and more. Ask me for details if you're interested. Learning enough Esperanto for simple correspondence should be a matter of a few weeks of occasional spare-time study. The simplest way to get started with Esperanto is by the free correspondence course offered by the Esperanto Information Center. For the first lesson, send an SASE to: Verda Stelo, 410 Darrell Road, Hillsborough, CA 94010, USA; or reply to me by e-mail for an ascii version. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech}!ut-sally!riddle riddle@ut-sally.UUCP --- riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally, riddle%im4u@ut-sally