With more than 1.2 billion members worldwide. It is among the oldest religious institutions in the world, and has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilisation

The World Council of Churches has a department dedicated to interreligious dialogue

Other Churches too have contributed to interreligious dialogue.

Believers from other religions have also promoted interreligious dialogue. They have used the resources of their own traditions.

Civil society, while it may not share the beliefs of the world religions, is not indifferent to interreligious dialogue.