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How should Christians be involved in Inter-Racial and Religious
Confidence Circles (IRCC)?


Christians should be involved in such platforms, as well as other inter-faith dialogue activities, both as individuals as well as a church or a denomination.


IRCCs and other inter-religious channels have been set up to promote racial and religious harmony. They achieve this end by bringing people of different faiths and races for dialogue and cooperation. The role played by these organisations has taken on heightened importance in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.


In Singapore, people of different faiths and beliefs live side by side. IRCCs are an opportunity for us to work together with fellow citizens to build a harmonious and cohesive society. The different traditions we come from offer us many resources to do this. Inter-faith meetings also provide opportunities or settings to correct misunderstandings and misrepresentations not only of our own but also of those of other faiths as well.


Involvement in such platforms is an expression of Christian commitment towards community building. Together with those of other faiths, listening and responding to one another with openness and respect, we can move forward to work in ways that acknowledge genuine differences, but build on shared hopes and values.

 

National Council of Churches of Singapore

“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body.”

- 1 Corinthians 12:12-13