The World Congress of Faiths is 90 years old in July and therefore deserves a Celebratory Congratulations. We rightly celebrate significant moments and achievements in life, such as when someone arrives at aged 90 years; the same must be said for

movements, organisations and endeavours that seek to make a difference in ways that we think and manage human affairs.

The World Congress of Faiths can feel proud of the contributions it has made to the mammoth task of building bridges between people of religious and spiritual conviction.

That task continues to be mammoth, and although the World Congress has turned 90, many would say that its task has only just begun.

The World Congress was inaugurated as a result of the stunning and star-studded

London conference, called, arranged, and steered by Sir Francis Younghusband on

3rd-17th July, 1936.

His opening sentence for the publication of the conference proceedings was simple: he wrote,

“To promote the spirit of fellowship was the one aim of the Congress.”

No doubt that sounds – dare I say it – fairly low-key, given the spiritual-philosophical hill that the delegates would be asked to climb. But just three years prior to the start of the Second World War, perhaps ‘fellowship’ was what the world was needing.

Younghusband indicated his deeper meaning when he wrote that he “hoped that the Congress would awaken a livelier world-consciousness, and give men (sic) a vision of a happier world-order...” An antidote indeed to the darkening clouds on the world horizon!

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