Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill has urged religious leaders and people of faith to foster unity, peace and respect.
The Minister called for collective efforts to promote harmony during the launch of World Inter-Faith Week at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cummings Lodge on Monday. He highlighted Guyana’s strong tradition of religious coexistence and reaffirmed the right of every Guyanese to choose and practice their faith.
Public Works Minister Juan Edghill, alongside members of the various religious groups at the launch of World Inter-Faith Week (DPI photo)
Edghill, a Department of Public Information (DPI) report stated, emphasised that inter-faith harmony provides an essential platform for dialogue and ongoing cooperation among religious groups.
“I think every religion should be promoted as a culture of peace at an individual level and a collective level. If the solution to the conflict is dialogue, why don’t we have the dialogue before the conflict,” he is quoted in a DPI report as saying. World Inter-Faith Week encourages discussion and understanding among different faith-based communities. It brings together people of various religious beliefs through a series of events.
Observed annually in the first week of February, this year’s event is being held under the theme “Love of God and Love of the Neighbour.”
Students from various schools in Georgetown were also present.
