UN Int’I Friendship Day: Kaduna Pastor Visits Imams To Strengthen Christian- Muslim Relations, Tolerance

.NEWSDAILYNIGERIA– As the World Celebrate United Nation International Friendship Day, with the theme of 2021 (Sharing the human spirit through good friendship), the General Overseer of Christ Evangelical and Life Intervention Ministry,Pastor Yohanna Buru, led a delegation of some Muslims and Christians Clerics during the week to some Scholars

This is with the aim of interacting, and dialoging on various ways of promoting peace and unity toward strengthening better understanding among different faith based organizations in the state.

According to him, there is need to strengthen good relationship between Christians and Muslims Scholars in the state, so as to teach their followers the importance of tolerance, forgiveness and accommodating each other in order to move the country ahead

During the week to mark the international friendship day, the cleric and his team met with many Christians and Muslims Scholars including the followers of traditional religion with the aim of strengthening good relationship

The Christian cleric says, Our world faces many challenges, crises and forces of division such as poverty, violence, and human rights abuses among many others that undermine peace, security, development and social harmony among the world’s peoples

Adding that, Covid 19 pandemic and high cost of price of foodstuff in the country couple with kidnapping and banditry activities has affected peace stability in the country,hence the need to joined hand toward promoting peace in the country

While Stressing the need to confront those crises and challenges their root causes must be addressed by promoting and defending a shared spirit of human solidarity that takes many forms — the simplest of which is friendship

Buru noted that the aim of the International Friendship Day is to promote Good relationship with all mankind world-wide irrespective of his religion, ethnicity, tribe,culture, race, color, hight, nation etc

He said, Through friendship by accumulating bonds of camaraderie and developing strong ties of trust — we can contribute to the fundamental shifts that are urgently needed to achieve lasting stability, weave a safety net that will protect us all, and generate passion for a better world where all are united for the greater good.

Adding that every year, the church used to share praying mats and plastic kettles to many mosques in the states, as well as some muslims also used to send some materials to the church in order to stherenthen Christians-muslims relationship in the state.

Stressing also that such a gesture has help tremendously in promoting religious tolerance and better understanding among different faith based organizations in the state

“ instead of celebrating the UN one day event, we used one week through visiting scholars and other stakeholders in promoting peace and stability in the state”

“we are one family under God, hence the need to join hands in making Nigeria a better place”

Responding Mallam Gambo Abdullahi Barnawa, pointed that there is a good relationship between muslims and Christians in the state

He said, there is the need to promote tolerance and better understanding among different faith based organizations in the state

Adding that we are all created by one God, hence the need to promote peace and unity to all human beings

While wishing all Muslims and Christians all over the world happy International Friendship Day, he equally drew the attention of all scholars toward visiting traditional religious believers to join hands together in promoting religious tolerance and better understanding

Recall that UN international friendship day is usually celebrated on the 30th of every month of july annually

The International Day of Friendship was proclaimed in 2011 by the UN General Assembly with the idea that friendship between peoples, countries, cultures and individuals can inspire peace efforts and build bridges between communities.