Living Together Movement – Pakistan

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2021-02-01

Country: Pakistan
City: Punjab - Lahore

+923008412247

  • Organizer

    National Council for Interfaith Peace & Harmony – Pakistan

  • Location

    197-B Pak Arab Housing Society - Lahore

  • Email

    [email protected]

The official observance of UN World Interfaith Harmony Week begins on Monday 1st February as organizers around the world come together to spread the message of harmony and peace among the followers of all the world’s religions, faiths, and beliefs. Programs seek to do this by promoting their common basis of “Love of God and Love of the Neighbor, or Love of the Good and Love of the Neighbor”. We are organizing events from 1st February through 7th  February 2021 in observance of this important initiative.

The Living Together Movement is an important civic initiative designed to help prevent and resolve ethnic, racial, and religious conflicts through dialogue, open-hearted discussions, compassionate & empathic listening, and diversity celebration. Organized in Schools, Colleges, Universities, NGOs, Government Departments and communities around Pakistan, members of the Living Together Movement are peace-driven individuals who recognize the same humanity in all peoples and are passionate about bridging the gap between different races, ethnicities, religions, political views, genders, generations and nationalities in order to increase respect, tolerance, acceptance, understanding, and harmony in Pakistan. The National Council for Interfaith Peace & Harmony – Pakistan aims to end sectarian or ethnic discrimination and urged the people from different religions and ethnic groups to work for acceptance of life and humanity, respect and tolerance among one another so that the society might be called a balanced one thus working toward peacebuilding initiatives in uniting communities and reducing the likelihood of religiously and ethnically motivated violence in Pakistan.

We therefore call upon all the people of Pakistan;

1. To know that peace is one of the most universal and significant of human ideals so all religions and sects should cooperate with each other to create peace, and to promote values of coexistence in the society and we will have to give all respects to each and every person without any religious, sectarian or ethnic discrimination for economically stronger and prosperous Pakistan.

2. To restore compassion, respect and tolerance to the center of morality and religion - to teach each other that any interpretation of scripture that breeds violence or hatred is illegitimate - to ensure that youth are given accurate and respectful information about other traditions, religions and cultures - to encourage a positive appreciation of cultural and religious diversity Interfaith and inter-cultural harmony stressed

3. To restore interfaith harmony as ignorance is at its peak today. To end duality and adopt values from different religions so that we may be able to create an atmosphere where everyone might have religious freedom, the religion must be used to end differences among the masses.

4. To bring women together, create awareness of peace and harmony and develop a family unit where peace and harmony, respect and acceptance of difference becomes important to bring positive changes in the society.

5. To urge the clerics of different religions to include the message of peace and social harmony, brotherhood, acceptance, and coexistence in the prayers sessions, such as, Friday prayer and Sunday mass. The message of peace and coexistence should be spread from the Pulpit.