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Church and civil leaders in Singapore vowed to strengthen inter-religious dialogue and unity, emphasizing the importance of collaboration for peace in a multi-religious society, during Pope Francis' interreligious meeting on Friday.

During an interreligious meeting at Singapore's Catholic Junior College, Pope Francis urges young people to work toward unity, to become responsible citizens, and to pass down what they have learned to future generations.

Ahead of Pope Francis' arrival in Singapore on Wednesday, several leaders of various faiths have expressed their hopes for peace and interreligious dialogue in the Asian country.

Before meeting with Pope Francis and signining the Joint Declaration on interfaith friendship, the Grand Imam of the Istiqlal Mosque highlights the importance of fraternal coexistence, saying Indonesia offers the world a positive example of interreligious dialogue.

Pope Francis visits Indonesia’s Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta for an interreligious meeting, and pays tribute to the people’s “great gift” of working for dialogue, mutual respect, and harmonious coexistence, to which we are all called.

As Indonesia welcomes Pope Francis' visit, an Indonesian priest, who is an official at the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, speaks of the significance of the Pope's 45th Apostolic Journey abroad.

Bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard, the Vatican’s representative for the 2024 Paris Olympics, speaks to Vatican News about the significance of the interfaith ceremony held on Sunday outside Notre-Dame Cathedral highlighting its message of universal fraternity.

Pope Francis sends a message to a Hiroshima conference on "AI Ethics for Peace," emphasising the symbolic importance of discussing peace in a city scarred by atomic tragedy.

Welcoming a delegation from the Mosque of the Italian city of Bologna, Pope Francis commends the friendship between Christians and Muslims and calls for all religions to be respected, free from proselytism and impediments.

Five days of total immersion with about five hundred people from all over the world. Among them rabbis and rabbinas, imams, catholic priests and a minister, Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist monks, as well as Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Baha'i lay people. Young and old: a true kaleidoscope long thought out and, in the end, realized to bear witness, as the title of the conference reads...

An Interfaith Council for Peace has just been established in Senegal. Bringing together representatives of Islam, the Catholic Church, Protestant Churches, and Traditional Religions, the Council’s mission is to anticipate, defuse conflicts and promote peace, social cohesion, reconciliation, and development in Senegal and in West Africa, as a whole.

Pope Francis praises the Focolare Movement for fostering interreligious dialogue and for their efforts in unity, mutual respect, and peacebuilding.

Pope Francis receives a delegation of Buddhist monks from the Wat Phra Cetuphon temple (also known as the Wat Pho) of Bangkok, one of the most important Buddhist temples in Thailand, and encourages them to continue fostering dialogue and cooperation for a better world.

Vatican News is in Lisbon, where The Imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca and the Patriarch of Constantinople are speaking at an interreligious convention.

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The Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue releases a message of greetings to Buddhists as they commemorate Vesak, the most important Buddhist festival.

The Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia shares his views at a meeting hosted by the Committee of Human Fraternity and the Muslim Council of Elders dedicated to the importance of interreligious education and the promotion of ethical values.

Pope Francis encourages people of all religions to promote diversity, peace, and care of creation, as he meets with participants in the first Colloquium between the Holy See and the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.

Evangelizing also means, through dialogue, recognizing and welcoming everything that the Spirit has sown in communities, outside the visible boundaries of the Church.

The laws about shaving in Judaism are diverse and detailed and different communities observe different customs.

The Inter-religious Convention 2023, Faith change-makers: Affirming human dignity, justice, and freedom for all, brings together members of different faiths and faith organizations, in collaboration with civil society, intergovernmental organizations, academia and knowledge institutions to strengthen the inherent dignity of all people.

"Let us join in extinguishing the fires of hatred, violence and war, and instead light the gentle candle of peace." These words underscore the appeal of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue in its Message for the Month of Ramadan and ‘Id Al-Fitr to our Muslim brothers and sisters. The message calls on Christians as well to work together for peace, the respect and protection of human life.

As scholars gather in New Taipei City to discuss Catholic-Confucian dialogue, Fr. Paulin Batairwa Kubuya, Under-Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, shares his hopes for the conference, and discusses the relationship between these ancient traditions.

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The 2024 Niwano Peace Prize, the “Nobel Prize for Religions" was given to a Sufi Muslim.

The appeal contained in the final declaration of the Peace Round Table that brought together Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims and Jews in Tokyo on the initiative of Religions for Peace. 

Pope Francis addresses a message to participants in the 4th International Congress of the University Research Platform on Islam, held in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The event marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the joint Declaration on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together on 4 February 2019.

Marking the 5th anniversary of the Document on Human Fraternity Pope Francis highlights how the absence of fraternal solidarity in today’s world causes environmental destruction and social degradation and he calls on society to spread the values of social friendship embodied by the three winners of the Zayed Prize 2024, all "inspired by religious beliefs."

Five years after Pope Francis' historic visit to Abu Dhabi marking the first-ever Apostolic Journey to the Arabian Peninsula, and the signing of the Document on Human Fraternity, the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, Bishop Paolo Martinelli, thanks God for the Pope's closeness to the 'pilgrim Church of migrants'.

The Holy See’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva gathers members of the international community and representatives of different religions “to reflect on the precious gift of peace.”