Accra High Observes UN World Interfaith Week: Across Faiths

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2025-02-01

Country: Ghana
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  • Organizer

    Accra High School

  • Location

    Adjacent Switzerland Embassy, North Ridge, Accra, Ghana

Members of Across Faiths Foundation, students in a group photograph

Across Faiths Foundation, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting interfaith understanding, respect, and harmony, has engaged students of Accra High Senior High School to observe this year’s United Nations (UN) World Interfaith Week.

World Interfaith Harmony Week is an annual event observed during the first week of February, since the General Assembly designation in 2010.

The General Assembly pointed out that mutual understanding and interreligious dialogue constitute important dimensions of a culture of peace and established World Interfaith Harmony Week to promote harmony between all people regardless of their faith.

In his speech, the President of Across Faiths Foundation, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Borlabi Bortey said the mission of the Foundation is to create a world where people of different faiths and backgrounds can coexist in peace, mutual respect, and understanding.

“In today’s world, we are faced with numerous challenges that threaten to divide us. Religious intolerance, discrimination, and violence are harmful consequences of misunderstanding and mistrust “he said.