Faith and Cohesion Project

All groups were very keen to promote inter-faith activities and their recommendations ranged from the general to the very specific. In general terms they recommended that:

 

1.The inter-faith message was so important it should be spread more widely.

2.Young people of different faiths and those of no faith should be encouraged to work together on specific, concrete projects.

3.Inter-faith activities should take place in a range of settings including schools, youth and community, and other venues.

4.Where faith groups operated in relatively demarcated geographical areas, inter-faith groups should be brought together on neutral territory.

5.   Schools and colleges should actively promote personal encounters with members of other faith groups.

6.Local areas should undertake and publish an audit of all places of worship, and establish a database of ‘approved’ speakers who could promote inter-faith work.

7. There should be a series of structured inter-faith activities which led to ‘meaningful sharing’.

8.More time should be devoted to religious, multi-faith teaching in schools.

 
In specific terms they recommended that:

 

9.Members of the various faith groups represented in an area should visit other schools and colleges to engage in a ‘Let me tell you about my faith’ activity. This would involve a greater expression of the peace loving basis of the major faiths.

10.An inter-faith interactive website be established and managed, while recognizing ‘it would need policing’.

11.Young people produce a film showing the different faiths coming together.

12.Young people produce a poster with the same aim.