UAE to celebrate human fraternity in new yearly festival on Feb 4
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence. Supplied photo
Several virtual events and forums will be held until February 8.
On February 4, the UAE will hold its first Human Fraternity Festival marking the start of a yearly event to celebrate International Day of Human Fraternity, it was announced on Tuesday.
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, said the festival would be organised by the ministry in cooperation with the Higher Committee for Human Fraternity. For the inaugural edition, the event will run from February 4 to 8, under the slogan ‘Human Fraternity in Action’.
ABU DHABI, 24th January, 2021 (WAM) The World Muslim Communities Council has commended the pioneering step through which the United Nations General Assembly adopted, unanimously, the project presented by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Morocco, and supported by many brotherly and friendly countries, to promote a culture of peace and tolerance to protect religious sites.
The Council expressed its pride and deep appreciation for this decision, which came less than a month after the United Nations adopted a project submitted by the UAE and Egypt,.
Saturday, 23 January, 2021 - 07:15 Destroyed parts of the old city of Mosul. AFP. Cairo - Walid Abdulrahman
The UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution proposed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and a number of other countries, to combat sectarian hate and protect holy sites.
The resolution, titled Promoting a Culture of Peace and Tolerance to Safeguard Religious Sites, condemns damage and destruction of religious sites and asks the secretary-general to convene a global conference to spearhead public support for safeguarding places of religious heritage.
It also denounces the increasing targeting of “cultural property, including religious sites and ritual objects by terrorist attacks and outlawed militias.”
The False Prophet is going to be the most famous and the most well-liked religious leader on the planet. He’s going to use his religious influence to tell everybody that this world government is good, that the new world order is good. He will also try to unite all religions.
The Vatican News recently shared that the Christian-Muslim cooperation to promote peace, harmony, and intercultural dialogue in the world has resulted in the International Day of Human Fraternity:
Fratelli tutti, the recent encyclical of Pope Francis on fraternity and social friendship, as well as the “Document on Human Fraternity”, signed by him and the grand imam of Al Azhar last year, have found a strong echo in the halls and corridors of the United Nations.
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Today marks the anniversary of a story that began 2,020 years ago in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. It was a very different Middle East from the one we live in this Christmas. But the communities, in Palestine and throughout the region, who are inspired by the birth and life of Jesus endure.
This year, they have endured a great deal. Bethlehem suffers from a lack of tourists and pilgrims due to Covid-19 and continued Israeli occupation. In the twin Levantine capitals of Damascus and Beirut, economic crisis has cast huge numbers of citizens into poverty. In the former, the proximate cause is an ongoing civil war. In the latter, it is a failure by state institutions trapped in the swamp of sectarianism to govern effectively.