NAIN (North American Interfaith Network) supports a coalition model of cooperative interaction based on serving the needs and promoting the aspirations of member organizations, including local interfaith groups, inter-religious bodies, single faith with Interfaith Offices, Academic, study centers and media bodies.

As part of Interfaith Awareness Week, 2019, NAIN held its first ever Digital NAINConnect on the “Interfaith Community in a Polarized World” which included workshops, panels and social connections.

NAINConnect 2021 was held under the theme “Building Interfaith Community”.

Link to NAIN’s website: http://www.nain.org/

The Parliament of the World’s Religions has convened every five years since 1988. It was created to cultivate harmony among the world’s religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world.  More than 10,000 people will participate in the 2018 Parliament, which will last for seven days and comprise more than 500 programs, workshops, and dialogues, alongside music, dance, art and photography exhibitions, and related events presented by the world’s religious communities and cultural institutions.

Since the historic 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, modern Parliaments have attracted participants from more than 200 diverse religious, indigenous, and secular beliefs and more than 80 nations to its international gatherings in Chicago (1993), Cape Town (1999), Barcelona (2004), Melbourne (2009), Salt Lake City (2015), Toronto (2018) and virtually in 2021. These Parliament events are the world’s oldest, largest, and most inclusive gatherings of the global interfaith movement.

The 2023 Parliament in Chicago 2023 was convened under the motto “A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom and Human Rights”.

The Ibero-American Interreligious Conference is a significant gathering where representatives from major religious communities in Ibero-America come together.  The regular (generally annual) event has been taking place since 2011. Formerly held by the Interreligious Network for Ibero-America Red Interreligiosa Iberoamericana, they are now hosted in collaboration with SEGIB, the Ibero-American General Secretariat, a support organization for the 22 countries making up the Ibero-American community which drives Ibero-American Cooperation in the areas of education, social cohesion and culture.

VI Ibero-American Interreligious Meeting “Faith, shared well-being and SDG 16+ in a prosperous, inclusive and sustainable Ibero-America“ was held in November 2018 as an event prior to the XXXVI Ibero-American Summit.

Regional Interfaith Dialogue is jointly sponsored by Australia, together with Indonesia, the Philippines and New Zealand. In addition to the co-sponsoring countries, the eight remaining ASEAN countries also participate in the Dialogue, as well as East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The Dialogue has been conducted on six occasions, the last one in Semerang, Indonesia, in March of 2012. The theme of the Semerang Dialogue was “Strengthening Collaborative Communities to Promote Regional Peace and Security: Interfaith in Action“.

Held since 2003, the Rhodes Forum seeks to promote a new culture of dialogue to facilitate a better understanding of the deep changes our societies are undergoing.  Since 2016 it has been a key annual event organised by the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (headquartered in Berlin).

The 2019 Rhodes Forum  focussed on dialgoue towards shared narrative title “Global (dis)order: Towards dialogue-based worldviews” and was organised around three areas of critical global importance:

1) Sustainable economic development

2) Global architecture and global (geo)politics

3) Digitalised lives, ethical standards, and the revival of civility.

The Spirit of Humanity Forum is a global network of organisations, communities and individuals committed to help bring about change in governance and decision-making, based on core human values. The Forum aims to do so by providing spaces for dialogue, listening, contemplation and experience. Participants are encouraged to share, inspire and be inspired, and to collaborate in pursuit of harmony in their personal, communal and political lives.

The 6th Spirit of Humanity Forum, held from May 31st to June 3rd, 2023, in Reykjavik and Hveragerði, Iceland, brought together 120 leaders from 27 countries and various fields to explore the theme of “Healing a World in Crisis – leading with authenticity and love.”

The Interfaith Action for Peace in Africa – IFAPA is a pan African process initiated in 2002 during Africa’s first continent-wide inter-faith summit meeting of religious leaders from the 7 major Faiths in Africa namely; African Traditional Religions, Bahai, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity Islam and Judaism. Leaders of these faiths constitute the IFAPA governing body called the “IFAPA Commission” which seats after every two years. IFAPA is genuinely rooted in the tested African traditions and approaches to peace making.

The Global Forum is the highest-profile event of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, bringing together prominent personalities, current and potential partners, and others from different sectors. 

The 9th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Global Forum was held in November 2022  and  titled “Towards An Alliance of Peace: Living Together as One Humanity“.

The World Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Summit is an extensive gathering of like-minded leaders and citizens sincerely taking action for settling the sustainable environment for peace in today’s world.

The theme of the 2019 World Peace Summit: 5th Anniversary of the WARP Summit was “DPCW for change, peace for all” http://news.hwpl.kr/en/news/view/190919429/5thwarpsummit.

Every five to seven years, Religions for Peace gathers hundreds of eminent religious leaders from the world’s great faith traditions together in an assembly where they can share concerns about international affairs and address political and social issues. Each assembly adopts a formal Declaration, which guides the focus of the global network for the next five years. Since the first World Assembly in Kyoto, Japan, in October 1970, Religions for Peace has convened ten Assemblies on five continents.  The last World Assembly was held in August 2019, in Lindau, Germany, titled: “Caring for our Common Future.”