President Barack Obama today said he would establish a faith-based office, which would reach out to organizations of all faiths, in order to advance inter-faith dialogue and help various movements build on their progresses. It will be called the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Obama's new office will help organizations “no matter their religious or political beliefs.” Obama will also appoint Joshua DuBois, a 26-year-old Pentecostal minister who headed religious outreach for Obama's Senate office and later his campaign, to lead the partnership's office and name 25 religious and secular leaders to a new advisory board. Obama signed the initiative at the National Prayer Breakfast.
