Interfaith and Humanitarian Issues
Regional Interfaith Dialogues have affirmed that "Believers, communities, and institutions exercise a distinct and vital role in the promotion of peace, development, and human dignity in this region".
Interfaith and Social Justice embraces development, the promotion of peace in the region, delivery of humanitarian aid, sharing of resources, aid, steps to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the encounter of equality between men and women of all cultures and religious beliefs.
Regional Interfaith Dialogues promote development: "We ask that faith groups and civil society develop partnerships with each other and with governments to work for social and economic justice, minority empowerment and reconciliation among conflicting groups within society."
The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights provides the necessary freedoms in order that human life may flourish and that peace, harmony and cooperation is possible among all peoples.
The recent United Nations proclamation of World Interfaith Harmony week is one such initiative where Interfaith activity is a vehicle for fostering regional project-driven activities across faith communities that focus on community service and development, environmental challenges and social justice.
Interfaith Activity and Humanitarian Initiatives
RID Delegates and website participants are invited to submit contributions to this topic area, using the Contact form or the Submit News or Events page.
Reports:
Muslim Education Trust Students help out in Japan
Faith And Religion Can Reduce AIDS-related Stigma
Singapore Interfaith Network on AIDS launched
Practical Action
Reports:
Interfaith Youth of India Affirmation on Humanitarian issues
PANAMA IDP Program launched in Philippines
Global Development: Desmond Tutu calls men to account over Child marriage
Interfaith Role in Disaster Workshop, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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We, as leaders of faith communities, need to develop a more inclusive view of the religious other, to recognise the humanity of the religious other as a starting point. We need to recognise the essential equality of all human beings regardless of religious beliefs. We need to affirm the mutuality and interdependency of all people... We may need even to extend this and recognise that religious other may, just may, have at least some access to the Truth. We may need to accept that the religious others also adopts more or less the same set of essential universal ethical-moral principles we share; that the religious other has feelings of pain and pleasure just like us; that the religious other has similar expectations about their children and family and the preservation of life, property and security; and that the religious other has the same fears and anxieties about the world and the future, just like us.