IGE Updates

From July 12-15, the Lao Evangelical Church conducted a peace building and conflict transformation training workshop in Vientiane. This first ecumenical effort in peace building included 31 Protestants and 10 Catholic Christian leaders.

From June 20-26, 2022, IGE’s Center for Women, Faith & Leadership (CWFL) hosted the 2022 Hybrid Fellowship Cohort in Norway for an in-person workshop and retreat. The program brought together 10 women leaders from 9 countries.

Check out the June 2022 e-newsletter!

IGE and the Institute of Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS) conducted the “Dialogue of Declarations,” a groundbreaking multi-faith initiative to “protect and promote freedom of conscience or belief of everyone, everywhere.” The program’s activities took place in Tashkent, Samarkand, and Bukhara.

After two intense weeks in Laos and 21 meetings with government and religious leaders it appears that religious persecution has decreased, and religious freedom has begun to slowly expand again. By the end of this year, IGE plans to host four Religious Freedom Education and Dialogue seminars and six Peace Building workshops.

Check out the April 2022 e-newsletter!

The video highlights the global impact enabled by the generosity of the Christian Community Credit Union as IGE works to catalyze freedom of faith worldwide.

Check out the March 2022 e-newsletter!

The program was hosted by the Committee on Religious Affairs under Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Information and Social Development and organized by Love Your Neighbor Community (LYNC) and the Association of Religious Organizations of Kazakhstan (AROK)