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A group of about 130 people gathered at Redmond United Methodist Church (RUMC) for dinner on Sunday evening.

But rather than a room full of Christians, as the venue may imply, the dinner was the Interfaith Friendship Iftar Dinner and contained a mix of members of the RUMC as well as members of the Pacifica Institute (PI). The latter is a nonprofit organization with Turkish American Muslims.

Tezcan Inanlar, northwest director of PI in Bellevue, said the point of the dinner was to have an interfaith dialogue that could lead to cross-cultural understanding. The theme of Sunday's dinner was "Love your neighbor."

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