Unite the efforts of the global community to protect the spiritual and cultural values of humankind; create a space for constructive dialogue among the major civilisations of the modern world; define, develop, and promote dialogue, and introduce the spirit of cooperation and understanding into everyday life.
Put students' faith into action to contribute to the renewal of the ecumenical movement;to promote justice and peace in the world.
AETE aims to be a higher level biblical-theological and pastoral training and research center which offers an interdisciplinary, inter-confessional, intercultural and contextual theological perspective. The goal is to be a reference in Latin America, which contributes to theology, new knowledge, and methods to understand the kingdom of God in or from the reality of Latin America.
Develop activities and initiatives in order to achieve - based on peace, dialogue and tolerance - balanced economic, and sustainable social development and the promotion of a greater knowledge and understanding of the different cultures, of the different religions, and of the peoples of the Mediterranean.
Inspired by the creation of a holiday in 2007 in Lebanon, which celebrated the occasion of the common feast of the Annunciation, in March 2015 Efesia initiated a gathering of more than 800 Christians and Muslims in the Basilica of Longpont sur Orge to celebrate Marie - Myiram under the title: "Together with Mary". Today, Efesia provides animation and federates the group "Together with Mary".
Build mutual trust and understanding through unique person-to-person programmes and activities in the region.
To build bridges and pathways between different cultures; wide enough to allow everyone to walk towards each other and embrace each another in complete harmony.
To promote dialogue, culture of coexistence, mutual understanding and to establish a common platform aiming information and opinion exchange.
Foster interfaith and intercultural dialogue, stimulate thinking and exchange of opinions on supporting and fostering democracy and peace all over the world and provide a common platform for education and information exchange; promote peace in the world and contribute to a peaceful coexistence of the adherents of different faiths, cultures, ethnicities and races; promote education, exchange of information, opinions and expertise, with a special focus on including as diverse a range of viewpoints as possible in our activities; organize conferences, seminars, panel discussions, common projects, scholarships, publications, meetings, trips and several other activities; promote the Fountain Magazine in Nigeria which is an initiative magazine of science and spiritual thought and bimonthly periodical, exploring life and our existence from a wide scholarship of humanities, natural sciences and perspectives on faith.
Explore and highlight the potentials of cultural and, in particular religious, diversity as a resource for peace rather than a barrier; create a critical mass of trained and sensitized peace workers in this particular field; create an integrated regional hub for research, training, information and documentation in the fields of peace, human rights, conflicts resolution and human development sensitive to the issues of structural and cultural diversity; develop a curriculum for Asian and African Universities focussing particularly on the cultural and religious dimension; promote the preservation of public spaces of communally inclusive heritage and cultural practices in India and elsewhere, and sensitize media and civil society about the common grounds between diverse cultures; create and reinforce networks of academic institutions in India and abroad concerned with intercultural peace and intercultural practices, to initiate Masters/PhD programmes for peace and development, and to host an online site for interreligious dialogue.
