The Abrahamic Reunion

Activating Religion as a Force for Peace

The Abrahamic Reunion has been working in the Holy Land for over 18 years. We recognize that creating understanding and empathy between diverse faith communities is fundamental to developing multicultural acceptance, constructive cooperation and peaceful coexistence.

We use education, interfaith dialogue, group processes and large-scale events to bring together diverse faith communities as well as secular groups to replace fear and trauma with understanding and trust.

Our programs, methods and techniques are used to support and train faith leaders and their congregations, school staff and student leaders, youth program organizers, as well as leaders of family and women’s groups.

Our Mission

  • The Abrahamic Reunion works to build sustainable peace with diverse faith communities in the Holy Land. We foster harmony by exploring common Abrahamic values in order to create deep and lasting connections between people.

 

Our Vision

  • To be a leading peacebuilding organization that brings multi-faith leaders and communities together to promote dialogue, connection, understanding, healing and trust.

 

Our Values

The Abrahamic Reunion is dedicated to:

  • Sharing the belief in One God by understanding one another’s religious customs, prayers and values.
  • Promoting communication, cooperation, friendship and peace among the people of the Holy Land.
  • Relating to all as though they are our own family.

 

Our Goals and Objectives

  • To provide education, interfaith dialogue and large-scale events to replace fear and trauma with understanding and trust.
  • To partner with individuals and organizations that share our ideals.
  • To convey our message and methods to world leaders and develop a world-wide support system.

 

Independent Abrahamic Reunion organizations have formed in these countries to support our mission in the Holy Land:

  • England (registered charity)
  • Germany (registered NGO)
  • Israel (registered Amutah)
  • Palestine (the West Bank)
  • USA (registered 501(c)3)
  • Canada (registration pending)

The Abrahamic Reunion operates to empower religious communities to work towards peace through the following actions:

 

1

Abrahamic Reunion supports a multi-faith task group that travels to places of religiously motivated violence to offer prayer, healing, support, and solidarity with the attacked community.

2

We organize public, non-political, multi-faith group walks, and public meetings, in co-operation with local religious leaders, in insular spiritual communities prone to radicalization, and in places where religiously motivated violence have taken place.

3

In partnership with other religious and spiritual groups, The Abrahamic Reunion co-hosts public monthly multi-faith prayers in Jerusalem that includes Muslims, Jews, Christians and Druze.

4

We organize multi-faith women’s meetings throughout the Holy Land.

5

The AR trains and equips young people, women, interested individuals and religious leaders to transform conflict, and become multi-faith group facilitators and effective peace-makers.

6

The Abrahamic Reunion supports multi-faith student activities on college campuses through the Campus Peace-maker’s pilot project

7

We host regularly scheduled multi-faith scriptural study and discussion groups in Synagogues, Mosques and Churches in North America and the Holy Land.

8

Abrahamic Reunion hosts semi-annual interfaith conferences in Jerusalem for all of the organizations working for interfaith understanding throughout the Holy Land.

9

We sponsor an annual Ramadan Iftar Peace Dinner where 200-300 Christians, Jews and Druze prepare and celebrate a Ramadan Iftar for the Muslim Community throughout the Holy Land.

10

We counteract radicalization in the prison population by training clergy, staff and inmates in our multi-faith peacemaking methodologies. (New and developing program)