This Spring, we are spotlighting the #PoWRofLove in the interfaith movement. Stay tuned through April and May for some positivity in your social media feed and email inbox as we share stories on the #PoWRofLove in our interfaith work, our spiritual lives, and witnessed at Parliament events.

While we all do our part to keep our social distance, we hope this positive message of love will bring some hope and humanity into your days.

World Interfaith Harmony Week seeks to spread the message of harmony and tolerance among the followers of all the world’s religions, faiths and beliefs. It seeks 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”.

This past February, which marked the 10th anniversary of the initiative, we witnessed the power of love in the interfaith movement worldwide as more than 1,500 individuals, groups and organizations came together in this historic celebration. 

We witnessed it in Chicago, where the Parliament partnered with over 17 organizational, educational, and community partners for a full day celebrating the unique history of the movement in the city.

We witnessed it in New York, where the Parliament and local partners celebrated the unique importance of addressing the climate emergency and gender justice.

We witnessed it in Cape Town, where our friends from the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative brought together individuals from around the world to connect and celebrate the unique faith and spiritual communities that drive the local interfaith movement.

We witnessed it between cities and town, between communities and groups, between friends and neighbors. Explore these events and more at WorldInterfaithHarmonyWeek.com

When we love humanity, we must also love the earth that we inhabit. That’s why the Parliament is working on a climate action initiative with religious and indigenous communities around the world.

The Climate Commitments Project coordinates knowledge sharing and collaboration among faith-based climate initiatives. The project’s web hub offers a number of tools for this purpose, including a global map of faith groups mobilizing their communities to act on climate.

Parliament is also a founding member of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative. Additionally, we serve an important role as a convener and source of expertise through the Global Conversations series, Faith and Climate webinar series, and Climate Action Webforum.

In April we will host a virtual Earth Day Global Observance with Religious and Indigenous Leaders and a Catholic-Buddhist Dialogue. Parliament is accredited as an observer organization to the UN Environment Program and works closely with the UN’s Faith for Earth Initiative.

With the support of UN Environment, we will republish Faith and Earth, a seminal work on religion and the environment, in the fall of 2020. 

Any amount you can give will go toward funding programs that will create a more peaceful, just and sustainable future.