Different Faiths
Common Action
Religions for Peace USA envisions a nation and world in which people of faith and goodwill live together in respect and mutual support, creating paths to peace and justice.
Who We Are
Religions for Peace USA is the largest and most broadly-based representative multi-religious forum in the United States, with participants from about 50 religious communities, representing each of the major faith traditions. The organization identifies shared commitments among religious communities in the U.S., enhances mutual understanding among these communities, and facilitates collaboration to address issues of common concern. The current foci are: protecting religious minorities and advancing religious freedom, advocating for refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants, addressing racial and ethnic tensions, and defending creation and challenging climate change.
Building Community
Religions for Peace USA’s work in building community takes us all over the country and over an array of issues. Our work is built upon values that persist across these issues and challenges and hold us to our vision.
Interfaith Peacebuilding
Religious communities possess spiritual, moral and social assets that can be brought to bear utilizing the full range of existing structures – leadership, local congregations, women’s groups, youth groups, and specialized agencies. When religious communities recognize their shared values, mobilize their collective assets, and work together, they can have a decisive impact where it is most needed.
Global Context
Religions for Peace’s global family of religious leaders and interreligious councils is vast, with more than 90 national and 5 regional bodies. In this environment, the U.S. has a unique role, responsibility and relationship to global matters.
Religions for Peace Statement on Attacks on Sikh Community in Afghanistan
The Religions for Peace’s (RfP) global family expresses its deepest condolences to the Sikhs of Afghanistan and the worldwide Sikh community at the recent horrific attack on Sikhs worshipping at the Kabul Sikh Gurdwara on 25 March 2020...
Prof. Azza Karam, New Secretary General of Religions for Peace, Assumes Her Office
Dear Friends and Partners of Religions for Peace, Here we are, in the midst of a world teeming with uncertainty over a virus that knows no borders and spreads voraciously, where children and adults still sleep hungry in spite of tons of...
Reflections by RFPUSA Steering Committee member Bruce Knotts
Recently, I was asked to represent the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) at the Executive Council Meeting of Religions for Peace USA. We met at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington, D.C.
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