7th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organizations on International Affairs
By the Rev. Dr. Esther R. Suter, IARF’s Main Representative to the UN On 26.1.2021 the 7th annual symposium on “the role of religion and faith-based organizations on international affairs” took place with a zoom and live-stream programme. The title “2021: A defining year for accelerating gender equality, equity and justice” attracted more than 1000 […]
Save the date: “Does religion set you free?” – EME Online Conference 2021 on 8-11 May 2021
The Europe and Middle East region of the IARF, IARF EME, will hold an online conference on Saturday 8 May – Tuesday 11 May 2021. It is scheduled as follows: Saturday: from 6:30pm to 10pm CEST Sunday: from 10am to 6pm CEST Monday: from 4:30pm to 9:30pm CEST Tuesday: from 4:30pm to 9pm CEST The […]
Motivational Dialogue #8: January the 24th at 4pm GMT
The next meeting in the second series of our Motivational Dialogues will be held on Sunday the 24th of January at 5pm CET on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86951947910 (see below for different timezones). You can watch recordings of previous meetings on our Youtube Channel. The formt is simple – a speaker talks for 10 to 20 minutes, and a […]
The President’s New Year Message
At a time when much of the world is in the darkness of Covid-19, its peoples call out for the faith and hope that religions can offer. It is easy to be disheartened by what we see before us and yet, with many celebrating the light feasts of their tradition in this period of the year, those who […]
Motivational Dialogue #4: Wendy Goldberg from Tri-Faith Initiative
https://youtu.be/X4QzidnDgNsAt our next meeting this Sunday, 31 May at 1pm UTC (you can check how this translated to your timezone here), the speaker will be Wendy Goldberg, Executive Director of the Tri-Faith Initiative. Tri-Faith Initiative is a unique and ambitious project in the field of interfaith relations in design, scale, and scope. It brings together into […]
Motivational Dialogue Sessions
Facing the isolation we imposed on ourselves to try and contain the pandemic, protecting the most vulnerable among us, many are looking for ways to experience a sense of community, for an opportunity to have a meaningful conversation. We would like to make our modest contribution, and we will be organizing online meetings we call […]
Festive reflections: Chanukah
In the coming year we will be publishing reflections around the time of big festivals of the many religions represented in IARF. We begin with Chanukah, the Jewish festival of light. The author of this piece is Rabbi Robert Carroll, member of the International Council, our governing body, and the Interfaith Encounter Association, one of […]
The 35th Congress: Reimagine Interfaith
Our 35th Congress, held on 29 July – 1 August at George Washington University in Washington DC (USA), was something we hadn’t tried before. Namely, we chose the format of a collaboration project and were able to gather many wonderful, diverse partners with the support of the host, our member group, the Unitarian Universalist Association. […]
Winner of the Dana McLean Greeley Award for young adult interfaith work
After carefully considering the 12 applications we received this year, each well-prepared and outlining a valuable project we would love to support, the Greeley Award Committee, tasked with this difficult duty, decided to award the project submitted by The Sanctuaries: Interfaith Arts Education. This is how The Sanctuaries elaborate on their mission to ignite the […]