It is sometimes difficult for organizations to acknowledge the United Nations Days as per its calendar, due to different reasons, but it comes to our priority to celebrate, acknowledge and observe World Interfaith Harmony Week, because of our history of religious intolerance in our communities. For instance, in 2015, there was serious violence between Muslims and the indigenous people which lead to several serious injuries, especially on women and children. After several meetings between community members, we were able to reach reconciliation, and realise that the root cause is misunderstanding of our different religious traditions and beliefs. It is against this background that the United Religions Initiative Lilongwe Central CC is organizing an interfaith tour, to visit different places of worship and learn more from our different faith leaders. Lilongwe Central CC is partnering with Mangochi CC and YASED CC in the Lilongwe region of Malawi, to host an interfaith tour for WIHW. The tour will visit St Peters Anglican …

Executive Director and members of the Lowershire Interfaith Assembly(LSIA)of Southern Malawi in Chikwawa district,are very happy to report that on Monday 6th February, 2017 organised Prayers and Fellowship as an initiative in the Harmony Week activities.We targetted youths drawn from 3 communities around Group Village Headman Bello viz; Chadula, Ntwana and Bello. In attendance was Group Village Headman Bello, Village Headman Ntwana and the National Coordinator of the URI Malawi Father John Ng’oma.48 Youths (15 Girls and 33 Boys)turned up for the special event of which for the first time,Youths from the Muslim commuties, Christians and Gule Wamkulu cult came together in peace to give praise and thanks to God the Almighty for His grace this year in protecting and sparing Bello community from floods and drought.The programme schedule,which had run for almost 3 hours,had allowed participants in the first phase to sing and dance in praise of the Lord Almighty and to listen to a preaching which Pastor Brahim …