IRD Activities

• EPIL Study Course

  an educational process created to train students to understand and manage religious diversity in order to build equitable and peaceful communities. It focuses on Christian-Muslim relations and on the role of women in creating a culture of peace

• Living Together

  folder with materials and background documentation for interreligious dialogue for the yearly campain 2014/15.The folder is dedicated to exploring respect for difference in dealing with „the other“. It was conceived for work in parishes, in religious education and confirmation classes, and in programmes of adult education within the Protestant Church of Austria

• Dialogue Weekends in the Netherlands

  Two dialogue weekends where EPIL was involved were organized in the Dominican priory of Huissen, 22-23 February 2014 and also on 20-22 February 2015. In the first of these two weekends, Christian and Muslim women took part, three stories were read from the Bible and the Quran, focusing on the role of women in conflict situations. These stories raised questions which were worked out in various ways. Not only was the mind addressed, but the heart as well. The participants meditated together about visions of peace in both traditions and prayed in each other’s presence for peace in the many large and small conflicts in our world. In the second weekend was an trialogue encounter of Christian, Muslim and Jewish women with a starting point with the story of Hajar/Hagar which appears in both the Tenach (the Hebrew Bible) and the Quran. The participants practised the art of interpreting the story and freely asking questions to each other

Main Focus Countries of Activities

Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Turkey, Netherlands - Austria - Netherlands