Welcome to Wyoming Interfaith Network's celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week!

 

Each day for World Interfaith Harmony Week 2026, WIN will highlight a good neighbor from a different faith tradition.

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                         The Reverend James Martin

 

 

 

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The Reverend James Martin is a Jesuit priest, author, editor-at-large at America Magazine (a monthly Catholic magazine), and a consultant to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication (helping to explain the Catholic Church to Americans). He is also the founder of Outreach, a Catholic news and opinion site for LGBTQ+ Catholics. His public outreach to the LGBTQ+ community has drawn both support and criticism from within the Catholic Church. This is the subject of his book Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity.​

 

"So when you think of people like the inmates on death row, migrants, protesters, LGBTQ people, people in Ukraine, people in Gaza — everyone deserves to be treated with dignity. That’s what we’re losing. What’s being set forth is, 'Only our side deserves to be treated with dignity, and the other side is horrible and evil and subhuman'. Which is a disgrace, because for Jesus, there’s no us and them — there’s just us. And all of us deserve to be treated with dignity. I think the church has been very clear about that, and I’m grateful for that. That’s not a political message; that’s the Gospel. Everyone is a beloved child of God, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity — and not shot in the head."

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World Interfaith Harmony Week is based on a United Nations resolution calling for a worldwide week of interfaith harmony. The idea was proposed in 2010 by HM King Abdullah II and HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan. Scheduled annually for the first week of February, the week aims to promote harmony between all people regardless of their faith.

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HM King Abdullah has long been known for his peace initiatives and when he introduced the idea for World Interfaith Harmony Week at the 65th UN General Assembly in New York he stated:

 

It is essential to resist forces of division that spread misunderstanding and mistrust especially among peoples of different religions. The fact is, humanity everywhere is bound together, not only by mutual interests, but by shared commandments to love God and neighbor; to love the good and neighbor. . . . we are proposing a special week, during which the world’s people, in their own places of worship, [can] express the teachings of their own faith about tolerance, respect for the other and peace.