Regional, National, & Global Interfaith Organizations

Direct Support & Inspiration

Interfaith Youth Core

The Interfaith Youth Core is a non-profit organization focused on engageing young people in interfaith dialogue by involving them in community service projects. By working together across religious traditions on common goals, people start to learn about the common values they hold. Instead of focusing a dialogue on political or theological differences, their model builds relationships on the values that we share, such as hospitality and caring for the Earth, and how we can live out those values together to contribute to the betterment of our community.

The Interfaith Youth Core is creating these relationships across the world by inspiring, networking, and resourcing young people, who are the leaders of this movement. They provide young people and the institutions that support them with leadership training, project resources and a connection to a broader movement.

Regional Groups

Center for Interfaith Relations (Louisville, KY)

The Center for Interfaith Relations produces year-round programming that models and fosters understanding and cooperation among all faith traditions. These programs connect and engage community leaders across all faith traditions. They strive to unite faith leaders and others to work together to identify and help solve social problems in the local and global communities.

One dynamic and engaging program is the annual Festival of Faiths. The Festival brings big-name speakers to Louisville to discuss issues of faith. But CIR views the Festival as only a first step to common action by faith communities to address shared problems.

Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia

The Interfaith Center is a nonprofit organization that helps to strengthen and enhance awareness of the rich diversity of religious traditions in the Greater Philadelphia region. The Center arose to fill a void and emerged as the first multi-faith organization in our region principally dedicated to interreligious dialogue, education, and community building at the grassroots and leadership levels.

The Interfaith Center offers a variety of initiatives that promote interfaith dialogue, education, and community building at the grassroots and leadership levels. In addition, the Interfaith Center offers administrative and staff support to the Religious Leaders Council, whose purpose is to build relationships of mutual support, offer a moral and spiritual voice, and take action on critical issues of concern in the region.

National Organizations

Interfaith Alliance

The Interfaith Alliance is the only national interfaith organization dedicated to protecting the integrity of both religion and democracy in America. They celebrate religious freedom by championing individual rights, promoting policies that protect both religion and democracy, and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism.

North American Interfaith Network

The North American Interfaith Network is a non-profit association of interfaithorganizations and agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The main focus of NAIN’s is to support the growth of interfaith understanding by supporting the work of member organizations. NAIN chooses the term “network” to describe its work rather than institution, organization or association.

International Organizations

Parliament of the World's Religions

The Parliament of the World's Religions is an Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world.

World Religions for Peace

World Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s great religions dedicated to promoting peace. They are active on every continent and in some of the most troubled areas of the world, creating multi-religious partnerships to confront our most dire issues: stopping war, ending poverty, and protecting the earth.