Interfaith and Youth
Regional Interfaith Dialogue seeks to bring together faith leaders, adults and young people from diverse faith and cultural backgrounds and to encourage the participation of young people in dialogue.
Young people are taking up active roles in many interfaith arenas of activity. Young people with determination can reap the harvest of cooperation, understanding and peaceful development.
Regional Interfaith Dialogue endorses further exchanges between people (e.g. young people, students, teachers, religious leaders, academics) of different faiths, within and between countries, and at the grassroots communal levels. Improvements to the religious education curriculum facilitate moderate religious views among young people.
The development of resources for teaching young people about other faiths that are acceptable to the relevant religious communities and to educators is a critical education resource needed in this region.
Strengthening multi-religious youth networks across the region, encouraging cooperation, including through exchange programs, camps and training programs are all recommended activities for creating interfaith cooperation and underdstanding by young people.
Interfaith Exchange Programs and Camps for Youth
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:
Youth and Non-Violent Leadership Training
Fiji Interfaith Youth Forum for Peace and Nation building
Multifaith Future Leaders Program
Interfaith Leadership Institute - Voice, Engage, Act
The Missing Millenium Development Goal - Ensure Interfaith Collaboration for Peace
Practical Action
Reports:
Myanmar and the Asian and the Pacific Interfaith Youth Network
Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth (goes to another website)
Youth Leadership in Interfaith - Multicultural - Multifaith Youth Network
Interfaith Youth of India Affirmation on Humanitarian issues
Regional Training on Peace Building for Young Adults in Mekong Region
Initiatives of Change - Asia Pacific Youth Conference 2011
European Interfaith Youth Network: Toolkit - Restoring Dignity Interfaith Youth say NO to Violence Against Women
My Spiritual Diary - Ven. Freeman Trebilcock
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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.