Did you know that there was a World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW)? I just discovered it myself. Apparently it is this week every year.

In 2010, the king of Jordan proposed World Interfaith Harmony Week to the United Nations General Assembly “to further broaden his goals of faith-driven world harmony.” The General Assembly unanimously adopted it as a UN Observance Event.

From the official World Interfaith Harmony Week site, this week is:

a call to respect our differences and personal beliefs and to unite around the basic principles that people of all beliefs agree upon and to understand that harmony can only come if we build upon a solid foundation of dialogue that has “Love of God and love of the neighbor or, love of Good and love of the neighbor” as its core principle for engagement.

I find that quite lovely; that all faiths and beliefs share a common similarity: love and goodness. Will you celebrate?