Born out of the 1999 Parliament of World Religions, the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative was established in 2000 and has been successful in bringing the interfaith agenda into the mainstream of religious and political consciousness.
Since its inception, the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative has broadened the scope of interfaith activities at local, City and Provincial levels, with a view to building a model for other Provinces. CTII continues to bring he interfaith agenda into the mainstream of religious and political consciousness.
Our Vision:
We envision a society where dialogue, interconnection, harmony and joy are experienced across cultural and religious differences and people are working through direct local relationships for peace, healing and social cohesion within and beyond our religious traditions.
Our Mission:
- To Cultivate dialogue and peacework and engage differences and diversity, in a world climate of fragmentation and trauma, even in the uncomfortable “no man’s land” between extreme positions, practicing “radical moderation”.
- To Curate safe spaces in which we hold these traumas; such as economic, intergenerational, ecological, gender-based, or ideological.
- To Invite all to ongoing shared spiritual experiences within and beyond our religious traditions, with a guiding ethos grounded in Ubuntu and the Golden Rule.
- To Work locally to build trust through direct relationships and inter-organizational networks in our communities and the broader civil society.
- To Celebrate our diversity and richness of traditions and honour each other through sacred ritual, creativity and joy.