The Lindau association “Friedensräume” invited on Thursday to a common prayer of the religions at the Ring for Peace in the Lindau Luitpoldpark.
Under the motto “Building Blocks of Peace”, Paul Oettinger from the Peace Spaces, Gumru Sadykhov from the Rabbi Brandt Association for Interreligious Relations, the former pastor of the Catholic parish of St. Ludwig Wolfgang Bihler, Ioanna Kravarioti-Haaß from the Greek Orthodox Church and Hasan Aslan from the Ditib Fatih Mosque from Lindau shared their thoughts on what religions can contribute as building blocks for peace.
At the end of the ceremony, the five prayed together. We would like to share this prayer with you:
“God, You created us and all people, You love us all in our diversity, bless us and bless our togetherness.
That we recognize and accept our sisters and brothers from other countries and other peoples, with different skin color, different culture and different religion, as unique and equal to us.
That we may transform any thought of arrogance or inferiority into the faith, hope and love of the creatures of God that we all are.
So bless us all, God the Creator, and give us peace. Amen.”
This atmospheric ceremony in the setting summer sun at Lake Constance prepares us for the ceremony that Religions for Peace will hold at the Ring for Peace on October 5, the second day of the “Conference of the World Council of Religious Leaders on Faith and Diplomacy: Generations in Dialogue“.
We would like to cordially invite the public to the Ring for Peace Ceremony in order to join the participants of the conference in prayer for a multi-faith sign for peace.
The Lindau Peace Talks will be streamed live and to the public on Thursday, July 7, at 1 pm in German language. It will be released with English subtitles afterwards. The first Peace Talk will focus on peace diplomacy in Ukraine and will be moderated by Evelyn Finger (Die Zeit).
Author Moritz Findeisen from katholisch.de uses the current war in Ukraine to discuss the extent to which religions are more likely to bring peace or fuel conflict.
We are excited to announce that a German publisher used in one of its schoolbooks two texts that have been written in 2019 for a newspaper supplement commissioned by Ring for Peace accompanying the 10th World Assembly. The first text is from journalist Mareike Enghusen titled “Deeply Anchored Common Values” and the second one is from Rabbi David Rosen titled “Fighting Extremism and Fostering Peace“.
Gunnar Stålsett, former Evangelical Lutheran Bishop of Oslo, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday. Stålsett is Honorary President of Religions for Peace and a member of the board of trustees of the Lindau Foundation Peace Dialogue of World Religions and Civil Society. Congratulations.
Muslims, Buddhists and Jews hand in hand on a stage, Christians, Sikhs and Taoists praying together in front of a ring made of wood as a symbol of peace, and indigenous people, Baha’i and Hindus dining together next to a large table with food that meets all religious needs. These images went around the world in 2019: Religions meet in Lindau to talk about peace. At the end of the conference, journalists were happy to ask the question, “And now what?”
The Lindau association “Friedensräume” invited on Thursday to a common prayer of the religions at the Ring for Peace in the Lindau Luitpoldpark. We were present at the ceremony, which makes us look forward to our ceremony on October 5.
The former EKD Council President was a guest speaker at the anniversary celebration of 20 years of peace rooms. In her speech, she criticized the arms deals of nations like Germany and called on religions to do more to shake things up.
March 8 is International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, we publish this interview with Rachel Rosenbluth, one of the first Jewish women to be ordained as a rabbi. Rosenbluth was a speaker at the 1st Assembly on Women, Faith & Diplomacy in November 2020. Read, what she asks of men in the name of all women of faith.
Today, November 25th, the world commemorates discrimination and violence against women and girls. The Lindauer Stiftung Friedensdialog der Weltreligionen und Zivilgesellschaft, Ring for Peace, is permanently launching very concrete projects to remedy this situation. Learn more about the ongoing efforts of our foundation.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and Religions for Peace announced a commitment to form a Multi-Religious Council of Leaders to strengthen efforts to address the root causes of conflict and displacement and to support peacebuilding, inclusion and reconciliation efforts.
