Pray for a Hopeful Heart
Dialogue and Culture Organization arranged an event for the coexistence of religions for the sixth year on the first week of February’, known as Interfaith Harmony week. This year 2023, unlike previous years, for the first time the event took place in the African continent country of Ghana. Representatives of Christian, Islamic, and minority religions in Ghana attended the event. The event focused on the issues of the coexistence of religions and acceptance of differences. It was emphasized that religion could be a gateway to the interpretation of different cultures and ideas from each other. Accra, the capital of Ghana, and the city of Sulaymaniyah brought an as lively example of the differences in language, skin color, thinking, etc., between the two cities. Still, religion has become a gateway to convergence and a friendly relationship between the two cities. And by collecting these personalities from both cities. We have reprised the message of peace and religious and national coexistence. The participants from the Ghana team were George Amoh “Executive Secretary of, national peace council; Dr. Cyril Fayose “General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana; Imam Ahmed Sanda “Former Ambassador in Egypt; Sheikh Aremeyaw ” Chief Imam, and Sheikh Salma and Numo Blafo “members of national peace council. In Iraqi Kurdistan, the governor of Sulaymaniyah, Dr. Haval Abubakr, the head of the Sulaymaniyah provincial council Azad Mohammed Amin, Zuber Osman, and Sarkawt Mohammed from religious sites in Sulaymaniyah participated in the meeting. This exchange of culture and ideas through a peaceful dialogue made both countries realize the beauty of our differences and understand that Iraq and Kurdistan are the lands of peace and love.