…the time has come when religious leadership must face
honestly and without further evasion the implications of the truth that God is
one and that, beyond all diversity of cultural expression and human
interpretation, religion is likewise one. It was intimations of this truth that
originally inspired the interfaith movement and that have sustained it through
the vicissitudes of the past one hundred years. Far from challenging the
validity of any of the great revealed faiths, the principle has the capacity to
ensure their continuing relevance. In order to exert its influence, however,
recognition of this reality must operate at the heart of religious discourse…
(The Universal House of Justice, Naw-Ruz 2005, from forward to ‘One Common
Faith’, a document commissioned by and prepared under the supervision of the
Universal House of Justice)
