KAICIID Fellows Urge FG To Introduce Interreligious Dialogue Into School Curriculum

Fellows of the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) person called connected the national authorities to enact a nationalist acquisition argumentation that integrates the survey of interreligious and intercultural dialog into the program from superior to tertiary level.

This urgent entreaty was made yesterday successful Abuja during a league commemorating a decennary of the KAICIID Fellows Programme successful Nigeria, themed “Celebrating a Decade of Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue successful Nigeria: The KAICIID Fellowship Story.”
Rev. Fr. Onuh Ladi Sixtus, a subordinate of the section organising committee for the anniversary, made this telephone portion speaking with journalists astatine the event.

He stated that the authorities indispensable beryllium deliberate successful forging bid and unity successful a federation often divided by spiritual and taste sentiments.

“The authorities indispensable beryllium intentional successful ensuring bid and unity successful Nigeria. I americium advocating for an acquisition argumentation that cuts crossed from superior schoolhouse to everywhere. Let interreligious dialog beryllium a constituent that radical study, imbibe, and integrate into our system,” helium said.

Sixtus argued that specified a foundational attack would systematically dismantle deep-seated biases and communal mistrust, which are often exploited for governmental gain.

“Imagine if interreligious dialog is made arsenic a General Studies people crossed each Nigerian higher institutions. Irrespective of whether you are studying mathematics oregon anything, you person this arsenic a foundational course.

“Imagine however this impacts implicit a play of time. We indispensable marque a nationalist argumentation astir addressing this caput on,” helium said.

Also, the president of the event’s implementing team, Dr Emmanuel John Nkanta, emphasised the halfway content of the fellowship.

“The summary of each this is that together, irrespective of who you are, we are archetypal and foremost quality beings. We powerfully judge that unneurotic we tin physique a amended satellite and to proceed to task the ideas of peace,” helium said.

The KAICIID Fellows Programme, initiated by an organisation founded by Saudi Arabia, Austria, and Spain with the Vatican arsenic a founding observer, has trained implicit 600 fellows globally.

Nkanta said the Nigerian section boasts of 35 fellows drawn from divers spiritual and taste backgrounds, who enactment arsenic experts and instruments for promoting dialogue.

The caput of the implementing committee, Rev. Dr. Edward Nanna, advised Nigerians to prioritise their communal humanity implicit spiritual differences.

“My proposal to Nigerians is, firstly, you should retrieve that we are brothers earlier the spiritual affiliation sets in. Let america let our household ties to assistance america physique a amended nation,” helium said.

The fellows acknowledged challenges, including the fearfulness of conversion, syncretism, and a captious deficiency of backing for grassroots activities.

However, they stay hopeful that done sustained dialogue, collaboration with existing bid bodies similar the Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace (IDFP), and a committed authorities policy, a much socially cohesive Nigeria is achievable wrong the adjacent decade.

Highlights of the league were a sheet treatment and the unveiling of the KAICIID mag tagged: “Celebrating a decennary of intercultural and interreligious dialog successful Nigeria: the KAICIID Fellowship Story, an Impact Accessment Report 2015 to 2024.”