10 Facts About Interfaith dialogue

Historical effectiveness of interfaith dialogue is an issue of debate.

Interfaith dialogue believes that the "common aim of all religions, an aim that everyone must try to find, is to foster tolerance, altruism and love".

Interfaith dialogue met with Pope John Paul II in 1980 and later in 1982,1986,1988,1990, and 2003.

Interfaith dialogue has since visited Israel three times and met during 2006 with the Chief Rabbi of Israel.

Interfaith dialogue has met the late Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Robert Runcie, and other leaders of the Anglican Church in London, Gordon B Hinckley, late President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as senior Eastern Orthodox Church, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Sikh officials.

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In traditional Christian doctrine, the value of inter-religious Interfaith dialogue had been confined to acts of love and understanding toward others either as anonymous Christians or as potential converts.

Interfaith dialogue relations have since been expanded to include Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and members of other faith communities.

Theological foundations of interreligious Interfaith dialogue have been critiqued on the grounds that any interpretation of another faith tradition will be predicated on a particular cultural, historical and anthropological perspective.

Interfaith dialogue shunned those meetings since he believed them to be generators of slogans and for the glossing over of theological differences.

Interfaith dialogue said that: "dialogue is a work to which we must return without pause: it alone lets us disarm the fanaticism; both our own and that of the other".