Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

“We listen and speak with respect to deepen mutual understanding and trust.” - URI Principle 5
SunDABT CC inviting interfaith dialogue

URI Cooperation Circles must include members of at least three different religions or traditions. By engaging in respectful conversations, members learn, share and build bridges of understanding.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

  • Sun Devils Are Better Together (SunDABT), a university student group and URI Cooperation Circle, creates safe spaces for people to ask respectful questions about other religions by holding signs that read, "Meet a Muslim," "Meet a Jew," etc.

  • The URI global community celebrates UN World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) in the first week of February each year, with grassroots interfaith events in many communities.

  • Campinas CC in Brazil hosted an interfaith gathering and invited representatives of multiple religious and faith beliefs to talk about life and death from the perspectives of their own traditions.
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SEEDS FOR PEACE SEMINAR HELD IN BAUCHI CITY NORTHERN NIGERIA

Africa
Human Rights
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

Since 1991 Bauchi continues experiencing ethno-religious crises with hundreds of people massacred and many churches, mosques, and family homes burned down. All major ethno-religious crises in Bauchi State emanate from the two local government areas, Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa, in the extreme south of Bauchi. Both Local Government Areas (LGAs) share boundaries with Jos, Plateau State, which is yet another flash point of unrest and brutality in Nigeria.

The Seeds for Peace Seminar was meant to (1) bring citizens of different religions, tribes, and cultures in tensed areas, to sit at the same table for learning to listen to one another, share their stories, and discover that “an enemy is one whose story we have not heard.” And the women and men were to (2) serve as the beginning of the new movement in GROW BIO-INTENSIVE Agriculture which will ultimately help people to have organic (healthful) food on

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Prayer & Solidarity Ceremony with the Victims of Peshawar Church Attack and Religious Minorities Living in Pakistan Organized by Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights

Asia
Community Building
Health and Social Services
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights organized a prayer and solidarity ceremony for the victims of Peshawar Church attack with the collaboration of Religious and Civil Society of Sialkot at its office on 28th September 2013. The purpose of that prayer & solidarity ceremony was to condemn the suicide attack, offer prayer for those innocent people died in that brutal suicide attack, show solidarity with the religious minorities living here in Pakistan

16 October 2013 - Event in Brussels - A cause for concern in Europe - Freedom of opinion, religion and belief Persecution of, and discrimination against, minority-groups

Europe
Community Building
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Policy Advocacy

By the European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF) With the participation of • EMISCO • The Gerard Noodt Foundation for FoRB • United Sikhs International • Pro...