Today, the world is rapidly changing with no fair and just. As agents for change, the youths from Mindanao are called to gather and establish a bond that will transform the modern society into a peaceful and harmonious society. Harmony Youth Day marks its 14th year this 2020. We conceptualize this annual gathering with the spirit of harmony. With this year’s theme: “Celebrating Dialogue towards Harmony”, youths still stand resiliently to showcase the beauty and the uniqueness each of one owned that will leads them to celebrate the common good of all in Mindanao and be harmonized with their relationships with our Creator, ourselves, among others and to the creations amidst diversity.
Harmony Youth Day aims to create a venue for the young people to come together to experience and inspire them to do more in relation to harmony and peace. It will deliver meaningful views on how the youth can change effect in today’s fast rising modern world.
Our search for peace and dialogue in the society continuously faces many challenges of the times. We are at the point of history when we realize that any genuine desire for peace and dialogue among peoples of different faith traditions must necessarily come from an inner conviction sustained by spirituality.
For dialogue starts from God and brings people back to God, it is going back to the treasures of one’s faith that makes this noble desire more concrete, real. This year’s World Interfaith Harmony Week’s theme reminds us that Life is celebrated when a personal transformation fueled by spirituality expresses itself through the dialogue towards harmony. This nourishes and sustains our desire to witness a more humane society, mindful of the importance of peace.
The challenge for the people of sincere hearts is how to harmonize our noble search to these pressing issues. This year marks the celebration of the World Interfaith Harmony Week in the city of Zamboanga. This time, the 14th Harmony Youth Day highlighted the immense capability of the youth to dream of a society enjoying peace and solidarity. It is also the high time to acknowledge how the present style of the youth be a tool to spread the spirit of dialogue towards harmony.
