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PaRD General Assembly of Members 2025: From Reflection to Renewal 

16. October 2025

The 2025 General Assembly of Members (GAM) brought together PaRD’s global membership for a full day of dialogue, exchange, and strategic reflection. Held in Istanbul, the GAM opened this year’s ...

The Role of Women and Youth alongside Faith Actors in Peacebuilding and Mediation

12. October 2025

In his address, Diplomat Luca Fratini highlighted the urgent need to strengthen the role of women, youth, and faith actors in peacebuilding and mediation, emphasizing inclusivity as a cornerstone of ...

Raising Hope for Climate Justice

11. October 2025

Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara, President of “Reset Dialogues on Civilization” an international think tank that promotes cultural and religious pluralism in different civilizational environments, reflected on the moral and political responsibility ...

The art of contributing to peace: Learnings from the last decade

9. October 2025

Professor Cesare Zucconi, representing the Community of Sant’Egidio, shared insights at the PaRD Annual Forum on the role of dialogue, solidarity, and interreligious cooperation in building lasting peace across conflict-affected ...

Food Security and the Role of Religion: Lessons from Indonesia

9. October 2025

In his address to the PaRD Annual Forum 2025, Prof. Dr. Phil. H. Kamaruddin Amin, Secretary General of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, highlighted the ...

Fixing the Engine While Driving: Struggles, Successesand Learnings from Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

9. October 2025

In a thought-provoking address, Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, Secretary General of ACT Alliance, explored why multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) remain essential — not just as mechanisms for collaboration, but as political ...

Bridging Worlds in Times of Turmoil – Turning despair into hope, scarcity into sharing, fragmentation into collaboration, and greed into compassion.

9. October 2025

In his opening remarks at the Annual Forum on Religion and Sustainable Development 2025 in Istanbul, Khushwant Singh, the PaRD Head of Secretariat once again emphasized the role of religious ...

Faith for Earth Legacy

9. October 2025

In an inspiring address, Dr. Iyad Abumoghli, United Nations Environment Programme, Director Faith for Earth Coalition reflected on the enduring legacy of the Faith for Earth initiative — a global ...

PaRD Annual Forum 2025: Faith-Inspired Action for Food Security, Justice, and Well-being

28. August 2025

The PaRD Annual Forum 2025 will convene in Istanbul under the theme “Faith-Inspired Action for Food Security, Justice, and Well-being”. At a moment marked by geopolitical tensions, climate-induced crises, shrinking ...

Ethics Education for Children Annual Report

20. August 2025
2024 was marked by growing fragility and rising violent conflicts. Sadly, children are among the most affected. These challenges make our work on Ethics Education more urgent and needed than ...

Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Global Affairs: New Publication on Learnings from PaRD

1. August 2025
Khushwant Singh, Head of the PaRD Secretariat, has authored a chapter in Religion & Development (Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2024), titled “Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Global Affairs: Learnings from the International ...

How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020

30. July 2025

The world’s population expanded from 2010 to 2020, and so did most religious groups, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of more than 2,700 censuses and surveys.

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