UN Holidays - World Interfaith Harmony Week

Every year the first week of February, ie The period from February 1 to February 7 is considered to be the World Week of Harmonious Interfaith Relations The main idea of ​​this event is to improve relations between different religious faiths in order to avoid conflicts and disagreements There are dozens of religions and denominations in the world, millions of adherents of which often cannot find a common language with each other Despite the fact that the goal of every religion is to create harmony and mental balance within a person, to find a common language with other people, disputes and disagreements often arise between adherents of different religions, which sometimes even lead to bloodshed Wars occur on the basis of religion Thus, while creating harmony within themselves, people are not always able to achieve it in small and large social groups, between people Disputes and disagreements based on religion have always been a fairly frequent and painful phenomenon in the life of society This is a very young holiday Its appearance is due to the fact that in recent decades the number of armed and interethnic conflicts on religious grounds has increased In October 2010, at the next meeting of the UN General Assembly, the need to draw attention to this problem was recognized And not only politicians, leaders of religious denominations and top officials of states should have been involved At the Assembly meeting, it was emphasized that it is necessary to involve as many people as possible in the dialogue That is why special General Assembly resolution 65/5 was issued It designated the period from February 1 to February 7, 2011 as the Week of Harmonious Interfaith Relations The implementation of this Week was a real sensation and an action that had important historical significance Therefore, it was decided to continue the tradition of holding such an event Since then, the World Week of Harmonious Interfaith Relations has traditionally been held every year in the first week of February Recently, the world community has become concerned about the creation of peaceful relations between representatives of different religions, and for this, the UN General Assembly proposed holding a World Week of Harmonious Interfaith Relations During it, various forums, discussions and other events are organized, where representatives of different faiths strive to achieve understanding with each other, to find common aspirations in the development of the spiritual component of society They talk and calmly listen to each other - which is already quite a big step for the development of world history The first time such an event took place was in 2011, after which it was decided to hold a week of harmonious relations in the first days of February Since then, the UN has issued a resolution that addresses the issue of good relations between various world faiths The United Nations has assumed peacekeeping, friendly functions and encourages the maintenance of good relations, the basis of which is goodwill and tolerance, understanding and the desire to find a common language The main purpose of this Week is to promote religious tolerance During this week, representatives of different faiths meet with each other, hold various briefings, seminars, conferences, where they discuss pressing problems of religion and peaceful coexistence of representatives of different faiths The direct ministers of the church on the ground do not remain uninvolved These days, more sermons are held among parishioners, reminding them of what values ​​their religion actually brings and educates them, they talk about love for one’s neighbor and religious tolerance Despite the fact that such an action has been carried out for a relatively short time, according to UN representatives, it has its own progressive effect Many believers, after such conversations, will begin to look at other faiths a little differently, more loyally Some representatives of faiths already agree to dialogue, which was not the case before Thus, the attention of the whole world is drawn to the problems of achieving agreement in seemingly insoluble disputes The UN appreciates the initiative in this direction and is ready to cooperate at regional and interregional levels - everything to achieve peace and harmony on our planet The first week of February was called World Week, and the “Common Cause” project appeared In a word, every year the matter of tolerant attitude towards supporters of other religions does not stand still, receiving new options and ways of development Of course, truly harmonious interfaith relations are still far away, but practice shows that by devoting at least one week a year to this issue, humanity can peacefully solve the global problem of hostility and rejection of representatives of other religions