GMU Began its  interfaith work in Kenya in 2012 when we collaborated with the Diocese of Mombasa and the Coast interfaith Council of Clerics to develop interfaith training programs for community leaders in the coastal region of Kenya.   Father Wilybard Lagho, Vicar General of the Mombasa  archdiocese asked GMU  to pursue funding from the US for a summer interfaith training program for at least 20 community leaders beginning in August of 2013.  GMU was able to raise funds to Initiate a one week interfaith training program in August of 2013 which continued each summer for the next six years until the health crisis of the Coronavirus pandemic limited in person training.  

Beginning in 2019 GMU established an affiliation with the Tangaza University Institute for Interreligious Dialogue and Islamic Studies leading to the development of a global online interfaith conference in 2021 with participants from throughout Kenya and 19 other countries.  A similar global conference followed in 2023 and a third will occur in February of 2025.   These global online conferences were done ding the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week and in partnership with the Harmony Institute of Kenya,  Over the span of 12 years GMU has played a an important role with its partners in combatting intolerance, fear and misunderstanding among Christians and Muslims in Kenya.  

Our interfaith work in Kenya did have an impact in reducing conflict between Christians and Muslims in the coastal region.  We documented this impact by recruiting  graduates of our summer training program to interview residents  of the most impacted areas of terrorist influence in the Mombasa region. GMU has provided further training and educational opportunities for our Christian and Muslim graduates  of our training program over the past decade, 

One of our Muslim graduates, Munira Faraj,  was chosen to represent Kenya by the US State Department for an educational tour of the US in 20223.  with representatives   from other countries in Africa. GMU also has done a research study with a professor from Tangaza University who interviewed many of the graduates of our interfaith training  over the past decade who reside in the Mombasa region.   The study also included the state of interfaith relations in the coastal region as understood within the interfaith community in this region.   

The children of the Lamu region of Kenya were able to return to school after the terrorist’s attacks in 2015.GMU's interfaith training for teachers in that region was  instrumental in bringing the children back to the schools,  We witnessed this directly when we met with teachers, students and administrators from these schools in 2016 on Lamu Island.  

 GMU has also formed an alliance with the Harmony Institue in Nairobi, a Muslim affiliate  of the Tangaza Institute for Interreligious  Dialogue and Islamic Studies . The Harmony Institute  has supported the interfaith work of GMU in Kenya by recruiting and funding scholarships for our educational programs.  In 2023  GMU appointed a professor from Tangaza University to oversee and evaluate our educational programs serving students in the coastal region of Kenya.

 GMU has also formed an alliance with Globethics in Geneva which provides ethical training for colleges and universities in Africa, Asia and South America.  Globethics will be a cosponsoring organization for the 2025 global interfaith conference on Migrants and Refugees.

GMU also is a member of the International Council om Open and Distance Education based in Norway and affiliated with UNESCO.  ICDE has agreed to provide support for the 2025 conference on Migrants, Refugees and Global Solidarity.  GMU has also encouraged and developed a collaboration with the Maryknoll Fathers, Sister and Lay missioners.in Africa.   Gerald and Mariya Grudzen, leaders of the GMU organization , established the first interfaith chapter of the Maryknoll Affiliates in Kenya.    GMU has also developed a graduate degree program in Science and Religion with the Tangaza University IRDIS and the Science and Religion Institute of the Little Flower Seminary in Kerals. India.  Over 50 students from Africa and India are now enrolled in this graduate level online study program  GMU faculty from Africa, India and the US  participated in the Parliament of Religions in August of 2023 in Chicago.