Christian-Islamic Working Group Marl

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In 1984, Muslims and Christians in Marl came together to form the Christian-Islamic Working Group Marl ( CIAG Marl ) to promote international understanding . Coordinated by a group of speakers, CIAG Marl works as a non-governmental organization for intercultural and interreligious community work . The CIAG Marl is networked with interested parties and organizations from the environment of the three monotheistic religions, e. B. through their membership in the coordination council of the Christian-Islamic dialogue .

Goals and development

The organization has three goals:

  • the support of encounters between the religious communities and their members;
  • the promotion of intercultural learning and the development of projects that promote the tolerant coexistence of schoolchildren of different religious origins in educational institutions in the region;
  • Organization of events that promote mutual respect, international understanding and peace in the world.

The Christian-Islamic Working Group organized the Festival Music of Jews , Christians and Muslims from 1988–1995 . In search of old forms and common roots , together with the city, DITIB , the Jewish Museum Westphalia in Dorsten and the Benedictine Abbey Münsterschwarzach with Godehard Joppich . There were the topics:

  • Gregorian chant . The music of the liturgy of the early Middle Ages. 1988
  • The music of the Torah and the Prophets. Sacred music of the synagogue. 1988
  • Chants of the early Russian Orthodox Church. 1992
  • Islam: Mystical Chants & Quran Recitation. 1993
  • Degree: Early music by the Jews, Christians and Muslims. 1995. Patron: Yehudi Menuhin

Together with the city ​​of Marl and all Marl schools, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is regularly organized around March 21st, following the UN appeal.

An Abraham festival has been held every year in Marl since autumn 2001 , in cooperation with the churches and mosques, the Recklinghausen Jewish Community , the Marl Integration Council and the Marl political community. This festival is promoted by Christian denominations, namely the diocese of Münster and the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , the Islamic DITIB in Cologne, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the trade union for education and science GEW Marl. Here, in lectures, exhibitions and other things, the commonalities of the three Abrahamic world religions for regional coexistence are made clear, with programs for children, young people, schools and adults, and also with celebrations together with all generations.

In addition, the CIAG project is involved in other initiatives in the city of Marl and by Marl schools in networking district work, for example with other partners in Kunterbuntes Chamäleon (KBC) as an interface between school and leisure. There are three independent women's groups at CIAG Marl. a. Discuss issues of women's rights in religions.

At the invitation of CIAG Marl, Johannes Rau visited the Fatih Mosque in Marl on the occasion of the 1st Abraham Festival at the end of 2001; it was the first visit by a Federal President to an Islamic place of worship in Germany. On the initiative of CIAG Marl, the first "Abraham tree" was planted in September 2007 near the town hall of Marl, a Lebanon cedar . This tree, which is centuries old, is a symbol of peace.

The similarities developed in the CIAG resulted in a conversation with contemporary witnesses of Jewish origin in the local mosque :

Supraregional importance

The CIAG Marl is

The festival of Abraham

The CIAG, together with its regional partners, the local churches, the Fatih Mosque Marl and the Jewish community of Recklinghausen district, with the support of the city of Marl and the schools, has been holding an Abrahamic Festival every year in autumn and early winter since 2001 to highlight the common ground for to highlight the public and to promote the networking of religions, and thus also to get to know each other. For this purpose, internationally known people are won as speakers, e.g. B. for 2010: Paul Oestreicher . The city of Marl accentuates its interest in these interreligious contacts by organizing a "banquet" in the town hall as a final event.

Awards

The "Evangelical Church of Westphalia" carried out a so-called consultation for the first time in 1992 about Christians and Muslims meeting for the entire regional church in Marl, whereby the CIAG was the local sponsor of the event.

On March 17, 1994, CIAG Marl received the “Golden Hammer” from the State Youth Association of North Rhine-Westphalia and on March 5, 1997, a Turkish thank you plaque for civil society activity. The latter was awarded by the then consul general of Turkey in Münster , Günes Altan, with the words:

“The Christian-Islamic cooperation in Marl takes place in religious, social, cultural and educational contexts. That arouses sympathy, sets standards and encourages other people elsewhere. "

The Bremen Peace Prize listed CIAG Marl 2007 as one of 25 best practice examples, listed in the category “Reports from Peace Work: Germany”. The laudators were particularly impressed by joint public prayers and the expansion of the originally Christian-Islamic dialogue into a “trialogue” with the inclusion of Jewish people through the festival of Abraham.

See also

literature

  • Advice center for Christian-Islamic encounters between the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and the Evangelical Church of Westphalia; Holger Nollmann (Ed.): Dare to take the first steps. An orientation aid for the encounter of parishes with their Muslim neighbors. Wuppertal 2001 (without ISBN. Can be obtained from the publisher: Rudolfstr. 131, 42285 Wuppertal or). Nollmann has been a pastor in Istanbul since 2007 . - CIAG Marl is presented as an example.
  • Zaman , European edition of October 13, 2008: Geleneksel Hz. Ibrahim senliklerinin bu yilki basligi: Umut, Yasam ve Mücadele… (Turkish) about the Abrahamic festival 2008 (German translation: The proven festival in the name of the prophet Abraham under the motto: Hope. Life. Action. )
  • Ursula August, Hartmut Dreier: Community work, intercultural and interreligious. In: Klaus Lefringhausen, Jörgen Nieland (Ed.): Steps to the culture of togetherness. A dialogue about dialogue. EB Verlag für Wissenschaft und Praxis, Hamburg 2008, p. 29 ff. Online: short version also in: Amos (magazine) , issue 3/2006, focus: Integration? (6th joint edition with banner. Journal for the critical mass in the Rhenish church. Duisburg), p. 22.
  • Gerhard Jasper: On the move in dialogue. To the lived togetherness of Christians and Muslims. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2000 (series: Christianity and Islam in Dialogue - Christian-Muslim Relations , Ed .: International Association for the History of Religions, Andreas Feldtkeller et al., Volume 12) (a comparison of the relationship in East Africa and Germany ) About CIAG: p. 147 ff.
  • Hartmut Dreier: Our Christian-Islamic cooperation. In: Evangelical Aspects, quarterly magazine of the Ev. Academics in Germany , 3/1993, p. 37 ff, online:
  • Hartmut Dreier: Hazreti Ibrahim´i Avrupa´da izlemek. In: Zaman , December 15, 2004, p. 18 (in German: Current European view of the prophet Abraham ). A lecture at the Haran II - International Symposium Religion and Peace: In the Light of Forfather Abraham in May 2004 in Istanbul with high religious representatives and government representatives of Turkey, organized by Intercultural Dialogue Platform - Kültürlerarasi Diyalog Platformu .
  • Hartmut Dreier, Josef Somogyi: Promote training, develop the economy. A project to promote training for young people with a migration background. In: Evangelical Adult Education Westphalia-Lippe (Ed.): Migration - Integration. Contributions from evangelical adult education in the sense of exemplary “best practice”. Dortmund 2004, without ISBN, p. 14 ff. Online:
  • Gritt Klinkhammer , Hans-Ludwig Frese, Ayla Satilmis, Tina Seibert: Interreligious and intercultural dialogues with Muslims in Germany. A quantitative and qualitative study (= publications by the Institute for Religious Studies and Religious Education). University of Bremen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88722-722-7 , Online , pp. 177f., 183, 196f., 325-327.
  • Şaduman Şimşir-Tanrıverdi: Germany bittersweet. Stories. trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783896268051 (The author reports on her experiences as an immigrant, with reference to her work at CIAG Marl in the field of women in the Abrahamic religions ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On March 21, 1960, in Sharpeville , South Africa, police opened fire on a peaceful demonstration against the apartheid legislation and killed 69 people. The UN General Assembly therefore proclaimed the International Day Against Racism in 1966 in order to resolutely oppose all forms of racial discrimination. In English: UN Resolution 2142 of October 26, 1966
  2. ↑ project partners under [1]
  3. ↑ 7th Abraham Festival Marl / Ruhrgebiet - 2007 ( Memento from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 197 kB)
  4. ↑ For the tree in this context, see the section "Cultural meaning"
  5. ^ Ankara Universitesi . Faculty of Divinity [2]
  6. ↑ See here . Participants are women, poets, artists, theologians, philosophers and people who work for the poor and for the environment. These actors speak together with Christians, Muslims, Jews and other religious communities. Not to be confused with the more pro-government organization A Soul for Europe
  7. ↑ This institution was removed from the Advisory Board for Religious Integration Issues at the former integration officer of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr. Klaus Lefringhausen, emerged. In the final publication of the Advisory Board in 2005, the CIAG is presented as an example. For text access see web links
  8. ↑ Online ( Memento from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). An example of participation: example
  9. ↑ see web links under Abrahamic religion
  10. ↑ see above
  11. ↑ Online (in German)
  12. ↑ There were further “Abraham's Feasts” in Bielefeld, for the first time in 2008, and in Munich in 2007, photo series ( Memento from May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). For Marl see web links
  13. ^ Speech by the Minister for Generations, Family, Women and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet on March 11, 2008 in Essen. Manuscript. (PDF; 43.0 kB) p. 2
  14. ↑ Burkhard Luber (Ed.): Bremer Friedenspreis 2007. On the courage to cross thresholds. Foundation “The Threshold. For exemplary commitment to justice, peace and the integrity of creation ”. Foreword by Hans Koschnick . P. 28 of the print version. Bremen 2008, without ISBN
  15. ↑ Online ( Memento from January 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.8 MB)
  16. ↑ a b Integration ( Memento from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  17. ↑ marl