Pakistan Chapter’s Peace Day Celebration
IARF Pakistan strives to promote peace and harmony among Islam and minority religions, including many Christians, Bahai, Sikh and others. Bahai and Sikh have proper relations and coexist well with Muslims, but there are tensions between the Muslim and Christian communities. We organize peace meetings with representatives of all faiths to discuss and promote tolerance and peace.
Please direct your inqueries to Dr. Jefferson Tasleem Ghauri at iarfpakistan[at]yahoo.com.
Celebrating the UN-established International Peace Day on 21 September, IARF’s Pakistan Chapter held a meeting with several speakers representing the countries diverse religious and spiritual traditions to share peace-building experiences and reflect together on how religions and denominations can contribute to creating and maintaining peaceful coexistence in a spirit of tolerance and dialogue, so much needed in that part of the world and many others.
The guests included:
- Fr. Amir Shehzad Lakshman (Orthodox Church)
- Rev. Victor Khayrat (Roman Catholic Church)
- Rana Muhammad Awais (Islam)
- Qari Mehtab Alam (Islam)
- Edwin Gul (Secular)
RFYN Interfaith Peace Rally
Chennai seafront
23rd January 2013
Co-ordinators: Krishnan Ramachandran, Anbumani Arumugam, Nitya Saheba
The rally was held in consonance with the UN declared Interfaith Harmony Week (February every year) to be observed by organisations across the world.
We are happy that the rally attracted 800-odd students from 3 districts in and around Chennai city. There was representation from the Ramakrishna Math, Brahma Kumari’s, Jain monks, Buddhist monks from Burma based in Chennai, from the Archbishop of Chennai, from Islam.
All the religious and inter-faith leaders present agreed to meet again in the near future for a longer program to create awareness among the younger generation for a better environment.
Report (PDF 7 pages, illustrated): RFYN Interfaith Peace Rally Report (23 January 2013)
Photos (Picasa link)