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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Peace & Solidarity Ceremony at Convent of Jesus & Mary Sialkot by PCSW&HR and CJM Sialkot

Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights with the collaboration of Convent of Jesus & Mary Sialkot Cantt organized the Peace & Solidarity ceremony at Convent of Jesus & Mary Sialkot Cantt on April 8, 2013. The purpose of that peace & solidarity ceremony was to create an inter-religious & inter-cultural harmony, understanding and show solidarity with the religious minorities particularly Pakistani Christians living here in Pakistan and abroad to eradicate their depravedness and assure them that protection of minorities and their assets is moral obligation of Islamic state