Bahrain's religious freedom for all praised

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon has commended HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s courageous stance in The Kingdom of Bahrain Declaration, on securing and developing religious freedom for all, protecting the rights of women and children and promoting the spirit of mutual respect in pursuit of peaceful coexistence. 

He held talks in Manama with Betsy B. Mathieson, Deputy Chairman of The King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence, and Chairman of ‘THIS IS BAHRAIN”, and several Young Ambassadors of King Hamad Faith in Fellowship Leaders Programme. 

Lord Ahmad was briefed on the King Hamad Global Centre’s various educational and youth empowerment programmes such as The King Hamad Chair in Interfaith Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence at Sapienza University in Rome, King Hamad Faith in Leadership Fellows Programme in conjunction with St Benet’s Hall Oxford University and The King Hamad Cyber Peace Academy. 

Mathieson said that the King Hamad Cyber Peace Academy Programmes were designed as rehabilitative tools for young offenders and showed great potential as a powerful addition to the new alternative sentencing programme offering skills and knowledge that were quantifiable and immediately transferable to daily life. 

Lord Ahmed praised the global reach of the various educational programmes of King Hamad Global Centre and highlighted the King Hamad Cyber Peace Academy and its use of real-life scenarios to help combat hate speech, extremism and radicalization and its effectiveness in reaching the minds of the youth to offer them an alternative path.

Lord Ahmad congratulated the Young Ambassadors of King Hamad Faith in Leadership Fellows on their recent graduation at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford University.

He extended an invitation to King Hamad Global Centre and the Young Ambassadors of King Hamad Faith in Leadership Fellows to visit the House of Lords in London, urging them to continue sharing the Bahrain model of peaceful coexistence to inspire hope in others as they begin their ambassadorial journeys around the world.