ECRL announces its introductory video. The film was made at ECRL’s 2018 Council Meeting in Budapest, Hungary. It contains interviews with President Thomas Wipf, General Secretary Mark Owen, Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia, Lakshmi Vyas, Schlomo Hofmeister, Ibrahim...
Gunnar Stålsett, the retired bishop of Oslo, spent much of his career championing peace and reconciliation, also as a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. At an age of 83 he’s still promoting peace while traveling the globe, and feels he recently made some...
The growing number of religious motivated acts of violence is a challenge for all major religions. Thus bodies like the European Council of Religious Leaders ECRL strive towards an efficient dialouge between the European religions, ECRL member Martin Hein emphasised...
This week ECRL members met in Brussels with Katharina Von Schnurbein, Advisor of the EU Commission, to discuss some of the challenges facing Europe and the role Religious leaders and multi-faith cooperation has in addressing these challenges. Katharina Von Schnurbein:...
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has announced the appointment of Sarah Snyder as his new advisor for reconciliation. She takes over from Canon David Porter who moved into his new role as chief of staff and strategy to the Archbishop at the beginning of...
The United Kingdom Women of Faith Network UKWFN was launched with high‐level support at the House of Lords in London earlier this year. UKWFN is an affiliated organisation of ECRL – Religions for peace. “Religions for peace is grateful for and proud of the...
