Country: Jordan
City: Zarqa
The Sixth Conference of interfaith in Jordan –Zarqa District
Organized By Christian Youth Club &Hashemite University since 2015 in collaboration with local NGOs
Introduction:
The World Interfaith Harmony Week was unanimously adopted and organized annually by Christian Youth Club &Hashemite University in Zarqa District since 2015 in collaboration with local NGOs and institutions .This conference is a direct response to the speech made at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010 by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan. The adoption of this proposed week pushed us to start a campaign to establish an annually conference to participate in activities of this World Interfaith Harmony Week.
, interfaith dialogue in Jordan involves people of different religious faiths coming together to have a conversation. They are coming from all Districts in Jordan( Christians and Muslims ) in this sense has an expansive definition, and is not limited to Zarqa City only .” The notion of interfaith dialogue encompasses Jordan-Zarqa, many different types of conversations, settings, goals, and formats. But it is not an all-encompassing concept: interfaith dialogue in Jordan is not intended to be a debate there is a variety of ways interfaith dialogue has been organized and targeted in Jordan through this Conference , and aimed at :
Objectives
Major objective:
Mutual understanding, not competing; at mutual problem solving,
This Conference as well as the previous conferences focused on:
Minor Objectives:
1 •1Involving a High-level religious leaders (elites) to speak collectively as advocates for peace such as Minister of Culture ,Minister of Religion , Minister of Youth in Jordan
2 •The Conference planning also to invite Global Elite interfaith bodies to be engaged in presenting future visions to all parties participated in the conference
3 • Distinguished participants will come together across religious divisions to promote cross community interaction and to develop participants into agents of reconciliation;
4 • Theological and scriptural similarities among hostile religious groups(Christians and Muslims ) have been and continued to highlighted to mitigate the hostility engendered by theological differences;
5 • Dialogue during critical situations through lectures and presentations has been organized as a step toward ending the hot issues or, in the post-hot issue , as a step toward mitigate the negative impacts .
6 • Tourism or holy tourism circuit (Visiting Christian &Islamic Sites ) training for an interreligious group has served as a vehicle for interfaith dialogue.
7. Interfaith dialogue resulted from this conference will brings people of different religious faiths together for conversations. These conversations with people from different districts can take an array of forms and possess a variety of goals and formats
8. • Proposing a relationship between a particular intervention or program and a desired outcome assumes a theory of change. A logic model, which links outcomes (both short- and long-term) with program activities and processes, is one way to clarify the theoretical assumptions behind a particular program design.