World Interfaith Harmony Week Celebration

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2019-02-03

Country: Germany
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    UPF Bonn

The UPF Bonn hosted an event attended by participants from various religious back-grounds and world views, as a part of Interfaith Harmony Week, which takes place annually in the first week of February. he program in Bonn included: an explanation about the contributions made towards peace by UPF and the Interreligious Peace Network, Bonn (IFN); a video presentation about the ideas behind ‚the Global Ethic Project‘ (Prof. Hans Küng); the presentation of „One Book for Peace“; projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and an overview of the territorial development of world religions over five millennia with information about their Holy Cities. These topics stimulated great interest in the audience as evidenced by the resulting questions and comments. Then following readings of prayers and texts from different religions by the participants.