7. • List down important information
regarding MCYPD
• Reflect on this, “Is it not the case that
when individuals subscribe to a
particular religion, they are also saying
that other religions are inferior,
inadequate, or incorrect?”
Active Reading: Muslim-Christian
Youth for Peace and Development
8. • MCYPD is one of the several interfaith
initiatives established by the
Peacemakers’ Circle.
• A local nongovernment organization that
facilitates dialogues, peace workshops,
and self-awareness retreats
Muslim-Christian Youth for Peace
and Development
9. • MCYPD is in the local district of Barangay
Tala in Caloocan, one of the cities of
Metro Manila
• The youth group is composed of at least
20 active Muslim and Christian youth
leaders and members (12-24 years old)
Muslim-Christian Youth for Peace
and Development
10. • Martin Forward (2001) argues that to
dialogue is to go through a process that
individuals are willing to risk in order to
learn from each other and in so doing, be
transformed accordingly.
Young People, MCYPD and their
Interfaith Experience
11. • But interfaith is not only about
understanding each other’s beliefs and
practices.
• Interfaith communities can extend
beyond this rote learning of facts by
allowing relationships to form.
Young People, MCYPD and their
Interfaith Experience
12. • There are three areas emergent
based on the study: the person,
and not religion, friendship, and
community engagement
Young People, MCYPD and their
Interfaith Experience
13. • Character of the follower rather than the
contents of the doctrines of the religion
• Some of them described their
differences
• But in explaining differences, informants
are quick to suggest that learning made
more sense as they can associate these
to specific friends of theirs
Person, Not Religion
14. • Participating in MYCPD is an opportunity
to make friends
• First, young people in their formative
adolescent years wherein the need for
socialization and belonging is heightened
• Second, many of them are relatively new
as immigrants to the community.
Friendship
15. • Several youth have pointed out, that the
most meaningful memories they have of
the circle involves interaction with their
peers, including youth from other
interfaith cooperation circles in other
parts of Manila
Friendship
16. • Friendship has become the main
motivation for participating in MCYPD, it
has also become the main reason for
trying to understand the other.
Friendship
17. • It takes time to finally eradicate stereotypes,
and interfaith communities are formed at the
end.
• But interfaith discussion is most of the time
confined only to the members of the
community.
• Building bridges with the wider community is
therefore necessary to effect change at that
level.
Participation in the Community
