Celebrating Commonality
A unique cross-border initiative of the European Union which has been designed to support peace and reconciliation in the border Region of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Under PEACE IV small grants scheme Churches Trust was successful in obtaining funding for a project which fits within Building Positive Relations priority area.
This was a community education programme, the aim of which was to bring together participants from various faith traditions and none, within the Derry City & Strabane District, and Donegal Council areas, to explore the Abrahamic Faiths primarily in context of the commonalities and differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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The project through a series of workshops, presentations, talks, interactive exercises and study visits, created an opportunity to develop meaningful and sustained contact between people from perceived different community and faith tradition backgrounds
The programme covered the following over a series of workshops and study visits:
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The Abrahamic Faiths in Context
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Judaism – Underlying ethos and basic beliefs
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Christianity – Underlying ethos and basic beliefs
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Islam – Underlying ethos and basic beliefs
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Concepts of Good Relations, Diversity, Prejudice and Discrimination
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The Shared Ethics in the Abrahamic traditions.