{{short description, None An interreligious organization or interfaith organization is an

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that encourages dialogue and cooperation between the world's different

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s. In 1893, the Parliament of the Worlds Religions held, in conjunction with the World Colombian Exposition, a conference held in

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that is believed to be the first interfaith gathering of notable significance. In the century since, many local, national and international organizations have been founded.

International organizations

* Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, established 2002 *

Elijah Interfaith Institute Elijah Interfaith Institute is a nonprofit, international, UNESCO-sponsored interfaith organization founded by Alon Goshen-Gottstein in 1997. The organization is headquartered in Jerusalem, with offices and representatives in different cou ...

, established 1997 * European Council of Religious Leaders, established 2002 * Focolare Movement, established 1943 * GreenFaith, established 1992 * Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, established 2019 * Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, established 2010 * International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), established 1900 *

International Council of Christians and Jews The International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) is an umbrella organization of 38 national groups in 32 countries worldwide engaged in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. Founded as a reaction to the Holocaust, many groups of theologians, hist ...

(ICCJ), established 1975 * International Dialogue Centre - KAICIID , established 2012 *

Lutheran World Federation The Lutheran World Federation (LWF; ) is a global Communion (religion), communion of national and regional Lutheran denominations headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The federation was founded in the Swedish city of L ...

Program on Interfaith and Peace * Parliament of the Worlds Religions, established 1893 * Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, established 1964 * Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, established 1992 * Temple of Understanding (ToU), established 1960 * United Religions Initiative (URI), established 2000 *

Religions for Peace Religion is a range of social- cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, tra ...

, established 1970 *

World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodo ...

Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation, established 1948 * World Interfaith Harmony Week, established 2010

National and regional organizations

* Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau *

American Jewish Committee The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations and, according to ''The New York Times'', is "widely regarded as the wi ...

(AJC) Dept of Interreligious Affairs, established 1906 *

Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs (or simply Berkley Center) is an academic research center at Georgetown University in Washington, DC dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics, and politics. The center w ...

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* Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC), established 2008 * Interfaith Alliance, established 1994 * Interfaith America * Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility * Interfaith Center of New York * Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative * Interfaith Encounter Association * Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C., established in 1995 * Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs * Interfaith Partners of South Carolina (US), established 2010 * Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism, established 1983 *

Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council is an interfaith, bipartisan collaboration established by the American Jewish Committee and the Islamic Society of North America in early fall 2016. Its 46 members are business, religious, and political leaders ...

, established 2016 * Network of Spiritual Progressives * Peace Islands Institute * The Pluralism Project, Harvard University

International organizations

National and regional organizations

See also