"Small Miracles" is a book that contains the true stories of thirty stunning incidents from the author's life. The first and the last chapters of the book deal with bringing different religions, the sciences, and the arts closer to one another. It suggests reviving an old theme in the Qu'ran and the Bible: "The Nation of Abraham." Under the group name "The Believers," a global organisation would be started which could bring the believers of God, in different religions, closer. Everyone reads the books of the others' religion as well as the books of his own.
Participating in the religions of the same God and sharing the same ethical values within those different religions enables the believers to come closer spiritually by fostering these ideas: love, peace, justice, belief in one God, praying to God for mercy and benevolence, brotherhood among all the believers of God, and sharing with others what God has given, respect for the self, respect for others, respect for truth and knowledge and beauty, modesty, and self control. These are some of the many common values of the different religions.
Seeing that the other religions of God have the same ethical messages, the feelings of enmity in the different religions of God are allowed to turn into the feelings of brotherhood- an important step for world peace. This concept does not necessitate that anyone leave his own religion, but simply brings his religion into this group: The Believers. The "Small Miracles" book explains how this is a starting point for global peace.
WRITERS DIGEST, in its recent competition, has complimented on this aspect of the book, "Small Miracles" by Askin Ozcan. Two stunning small miracles have happened in connection with this movement.
"Small Miracles" contains the true stories of other very interesting and stunning small miracles from the life of the author, as evidence that there is God and God is capable of doing anything. Askin Ozcan has sent a copy of the book to His Holiness The Pope Benedictus XVI and it has been well received.
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Askin Ozcan has been for ten years, the Associate Secretary General of I.A.E.W.P., a major peace education organisation associated with U.N. as an NGO and has been for two years its delegate at the U.N. (in Vienna and Geneva).