Michael Barnes, S.J. studied at the Universities of London, Oxford and Cambridge and is professor of Interreligious Relations at Heythrop College, University of London.  A Jesuit since 1965, his particular area of expertise is Buddhism, the religions of India and Christian-Jewish Relations. His mai...

Davide Bernocchi is the Country Representative, Moldova & Ukraine, for the Catholic Relief Services since 2022. Before he was Caritas Internationalis’ Special Advisor on Ecumenical and Interreligious Partnership. Headquartered in the Vatican City, Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 165 ...

In December 2015, Katharina von Schnurbein, a German national, was appointed the first European Commission Coordinator on combating Antisemitism. Before, she was an advisor to Commission President José Manuel Barroso on the Commission's dialogue with Churches, religions, philosophical and non-c...

Marcus Braybrooke is a retired Anglican parish priest. He and his wife Mary, a social worker, have  been  interfaith and peace activists for fifty years. He joined the World Congress of Faiths in 1964 and is now Joint-President. He was Director of the Council of Christians and Jews (1984-7), Inte...

His Grace, Archbishop Luigi Bressan, was born in 1940 in Trento (Italy) and was ordained Priest in 1964 and Bishop in 1989, promoted as Archbishop of Trento in 1999. He resigned because of age in 2016 and was appointed  National Assistant of two Italian Associations dealing with development project...

Born in 1971 in Lebanon, Fadi Daou is currently the Chairperson and CEO of Adyan Foundation, where he contributes, in Lebanon and internationally, to the promotion of coexistence, interfaith relations and inclusive citizenship. Adyan’s successful work was recognized in 2018 by receiving the Niwan...

Dr. Jackie Ogega is an inspiring leader dedicated to promoting gender equality, social inclusion, and the empowerment of women and girls. She has directed numerous multi-million-dollar programs to advance gender equality and social inclusion in many countries across the world. Jackie taught high sch...

Ms Duff serves as chief executive of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) an international, interfaith, multi-sector collaboration for excellent  evidence for faith groups’ activity and contribution to development and humanitarian challenges. JLI’s goal is to e...

Bishop Dr. Munib Younan was is the former President (2010-2017) of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a global communion of Christian churches with 145 member churches in 79 countries representing more than 70 million Christians. In his capacity of president of the LWF the bishop signed with his H...

University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, John L. Esposito is Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and The Bridge Initiative: Protecting Pluralism – Ending Islamophobia in the Walsh ...