Country: Bahrain
City:
Organizer
Bahrain Interfaith
The United Nations celebrates the
World Interfaith Harmony Week on the first week of February every year, for cultivating mutual understanding and interfaith dialogue around the world, due to the substantial support that this contributes to creating a culture of peace and harmony among adherents to religions, sects, and belief groups, while benefitting from religious differences and diversities for promoting this culture.
In order for this occasion to be an opportunity of spreading the culture of living in peace and harmony among adherents to religions and ethnicities,
Bahrain Interfaith calls for organizing effective initiatives that enhance human participation between
mosques, Ma’tams, churches, and temples around the world, and calls on everyone to contribute to reinforcing these values that have been endorsed by the people of Bahrain throughout its history.
Through this initiative
Bahrain Interfaith calls on the government of Bahrain to assume its responsibilities of building peace and harmony, by enacting laws that criminalize messages of hatred between people, and preserving religious freedoms for all components of society. It also calls on the government to adhere to the private legal personality of religious institutions and groups, which includes respecting the independence and freedom of adherents to sects and belief groups in organizing and managing their religious affairs, as well as practicing their private beliefs, rites, and rituals.