Religions for Peace has a long-standing and deeply rooted commitment to engagement of youth communities and leaders in its interreligious work. The summary report below reflects a project to seek youth inputs on critical global agenda issues, notably peace, environmental matters, and humanitarian action. The continuing partnership involved a call for papers on these topics, presented at a symposium in July 2021. This report draws on the symposium discussion and the background papers. The World Faiths Development Dialogue worked with Religions for Peace to highlight the vital insights that emerged from this dialogue process.
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As European blasphemy laws endure, journalists should consider how words can get them in trouble
Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs will deliver the World Interfaith Harmony Week address at Melbourne University on evening of 5 February. Her topic will be Religious Freedom in Australia. In Europe, the media are confronting an explosive combination: The democratic demand for freedom of speech and the equally emotionally laden demand that sincerely held religious beliefs not be subjected to indiscriminate insults and scorn.
