 A week before Thanksgiving, people of different religions and backgrounds gathered in Riviera, Massachusetts, to share a meal together. The event was organized by the Peace Island Institute, a Turkish organization that aspires to facilitate a forum of mutual respect and collaboration among all people. Leaders of various religions hold a speech at the beginning of the event. I highlighted the importance for every believer to strive to make of the world one family. For me, the biggest thing is when trust is built up and we come together both in prayer and action and dialogue, what we're doing is we're creating something that is extraordinary and only we can do that and that is out of the many voices that lead to God, we carry with us one interfaith voice. So why create so many beautiful religions and complicate things so much? And I wonder about that and as I think about that, I know the Koran has an answer. I wonder if God isn't making it deliberately harder for us to come to the understanding that everything is one just as God is one. Esther Derizme, a Messianic Jew from Haiti, loves to come to an event like this one. This is just wonderful, an event like this brings connection to different faith and different types of people and different shape colors and countries or you know society, a whole. Betul Aziz Evinj is a Turkish high school teacher living in Massachusetts since 2016 and she's a member of Pisa Island Institute. So like tonight I came here to be able to meet like different people from different faiths, different backgrounds. So I always like would like to meet people. The reason I came from Turkey to United States was like to get to know other people around the world. Like if we were all the same nation, all the same religion, I thought it would be like boring because there is nothing that different. Like everybody is the same, there is nothing you need, you can learn from other people like cultures, their religions. James Morris is an attorney and law in Massachusetts. He met the Pisa Island in his trip to Turkey. The reception that we got and the people we met were the warmest, kindest, family-oriented, delightful people. It just was an eye-opener for me and I couldn't say enough good things about Turkey and the people when I get back to Boston and I think that the more of this that we do the better off the whole country and the whole world will be. And I think tonight was just a delight. It's been two years since I've been at one of these events and it was just very enjoyable to sit down at the table and talk to people and sort of reminisce and just get to know each other and it's great. From the Pisa Island Institute, where all religions come together to celebrate Thanksgiving, this is Pietro Rossini reporting for BUTV10.