Coordinated efforts to deal with global issues such as world peace, the environment, or hunger. Foster efforts at education and communication among people of different faiths. Education is both a consequence of and a way into interfaith dialogue. The effort to learn and understand will bring us into closer contact. In our pluralistic society it is important that people have an appreciation of the rich religious heritage of those who make up our community.
People are pleased, for example, when their major religious festivals are acknowledged.
These can provide the occasion for learning more about the faith concerned. Sustained contact with people of other faiths can begin to break down false images with which many of us have grown up, and to which we are still often exposed. Efforts should be made to challenge such stereotypes wherever they may be encountered, including those in our own educational and liturgical material. Among the places where such educational efforts can be focused are schools, universities, seminaries, church schools, and other institutions for adult education. Inaccurate media coverage of minority religious groups can be detrimental.