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Breakthrough Inter-Religious Commitment Summary
The Breakthrough Inter-Religious Commitment is an historic agreement by religious leaders from the world's major religions affirming the value and moral imperative of inter-religious cooperation and pledging specific actions to address the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to promote gender equality and end gender-based violence.
The Inter-Religious Commitment asserts that empowering women and girls and promoting gender equality will benefit the entire world. Leaders affirm that gender equality is a prerequisite to sustainable global development, and agree on the need to collaborate to build the spiritual and political will necessary to empower women and girls and attain the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. They acknowledge a moral and ethical responsibility to name and condemn gender-based violence and vow to use their power and influence to make gender based violence history.
The Inter-Religious Commitment, as a living document, has worldwide reach and will impact the lives of millions of women and girls, men and boys. Religious leaders everywhere are invited to sign on to the commitment by posting a detailed comment at the bottom of this page.
To download the full text of the Inter-Religious Commitment, click here (pdf).
Inter-Religious Commitment Signatories
- Margaret Arach; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa (IFAPA), Christian
- Dr. Vinu Aram; Director, Shanti Ashram; Vice Moderator, Religions for Peace World Council
- Hamid Byamugenzi; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa, Muslim
- The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane; Bishop of Washington
- Ahmad El Bendary; Founder & Senior Advisor, Islamic Relief USA
- Uzma Farooq; Vice -President, Muslim Women's Coalition, Director For The Greater Washington DC Area
- Rev. Dirk Ficca; Executive Director, Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
- Dr. Richard L. Hamm; former General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the U.S. & Canada
- Bishop Sumoward Harris; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa, Christian
- Judith M. Hertz; Co-chair, Commission on Interreligious Affairs, Union for Reform Judaism
- Robert Hounon; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa, African Traditional Religion
- Sr. Mariah Udorah Ifechukwu; Nigeria Conference of Religious Women; Religions for Peace African Women of Faith Network
- Daisy Khan; Executive Director, American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA); Founder, Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity (WISE)
- Rev. Michael Kinnamon, Ph.D.; General Secretary, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
- The Reverend Dr. Clifton Kirkpatrick; Stated Clerk, Presbyterian Church (USA)
- Constance Kreshtool; Past President, Women of Reform Judaism
- Ms. Mehrezia Labidi-Maiza; Secretary, Association for Women Progress and Representative; Coordinator, Religions for Peace Global Women of Faith Network
- Shelley Lindauer; Executive Director, Women of Reform Judaism
- Ms. Hajia Katumi Mahama; President, Muslim Women's Organization of Ghana; Coordinator, Religions for Peace African Women of Faith Network
- Rev. Gail E. Mengel; National President, Church Women United
- Sheikh Shaban Mubaje; Grand Mufti, Uganda Muslim Supreme Council; Co-Chair, Religions for Peace African Council of Religious Leaders
- Ms. Stellamaris Mulaeh; Peace Units Programme National Coordinator, Pax Romana Africa Regional Office; Coordinator, Religions for Peace Global Youth Network
- Rev. Samuel Nixon, Jr.; Executive Director Missions, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
- The Reverend Dr. Ishmael Noko; General Secretary, Lutheran World Federation
- Rev. Ilukpittye Pannasekara; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa, Buddhist
- Ms. Ana Victoria Pelaez; Meso American Women of Faith Network; Coordinator, Guatemalan Inter-Religious Dialogue on Development
- Prabhudas Pattni; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa, Hindu
- Rev. Dr. Tyrone Pitts; General Secretary, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf; Imam, Masjid Al Farah; Founder & CEO, Cordoba Initiative
- The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori; Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church
- Rosanne M. Selfon; President, Women of Reform Judaism
- Hadja Mariama Sow; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa, Muslim
- Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Smith, Jr.; President, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
- John Thomas; General Minister and President of United Church of Christ
- Rev. Judith VanOsdol; Women and Gender Justice Pastoral Coordinator, Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI); Coordinator, Religions for Peace Latin American and the Caribbean Women of Faith Network
- Lucretia Warren; Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa, Baha'i
- The Rev. Dr. Robert K. Welsh; General Secretary of the Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council
- James E. Winkler; General Secretary, General Board of Church & Society, United Methodist Church
- Rabbi Eric Yoffie; President, Union for Reform Judaism
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