Transcendence (International Interreligious Forum)

Transcendence, Foro Interreligioso Internacional (FIIT) — known in English as Transcendence (International Interreligious Forum) — is an interreligious association based in Valencia, Spain. It was founded on 17 April 2018 at the Faculty of Theology San Vicente Ferrer in Valencia and is presided over by Vicente Collado Bertoméu, a Catholic priest who also heads the Diocesan Delegation for Interconfessional Relations and Interreligious Dialogue of the Archdiocese of Valencia. The forum is an initiative promoted by that diocesan delegation. The organisation is composed of religious representatives from the different faith traditions present in Spain. Its founding members include Catholic, Advaita Vedanta Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, Evangelical Lutheran, Russian Orthodox and Hindu representatives, among them Swami Rameshwarananda Giri Maharaj, Sheikh Mansur Mota, Isaac Sananes Haserfaty, Venerable Tenzin Choky, Ricardo García García, Juan Maria Tellería Larrañaga, Cristino Enrique Robles Perea, Sergey Prosandeev and Krishna Kripa Dasa. This composition reflects the forum's aim of gathering contemplatives, religious leaders and academic scholars of mysticism and philosophy across traditions. Transcendence's stated mission is to interpret the diverse spiritual worldviews of its members from the perspective that they are expressions of one and the same spiritual reality, and to serve as an example of fraternity, solidarity and spirituality. Its public messaging emphasises a culture of dialogue, alliance and the absolute rejection of imposition and violence, describing the culture of peace through respect for the other as the dawn announcing humanity's future. The forum frames its work around the idea of a radical unity of the human being that is not syncretism, and around the acceptance of transcendence as a shared motivating principle. The forum has organised and participated in international interreligious events. On 25 November it organised the Madrid session of the 8th Meeting of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, promoted by the Elijah Interfaith Institute, where participants were received by Cardinal Carlos Osoro. The organisation maintains a public presence through its website, transcendence.es, which presents its manifesto, its member traditions — Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, religions of India, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith — and its reflections on the social and spiritual challenges of the contemporary world. As an interreligious association rather than a commercial enterprise, Transcendence operates in the space of civil society and religious dialogue. Its activities centre on encounters, declarations and joint reflection among faith leaders, with a geographic focus on Spain and a reach extending to international interfaith networks through its collaboration with bodies such as the Elijah Interfaith Institute.

Transcendence, Foro Interreligioso Internacional (FIIT) was founded on 17 April 2018 at the Faculty of Theology San Vicente Ferrer in Valencia, Spain. It was created to foster closer relations between representatives of the different religious traditions present in Spain, and it is an entity promoted by the Diocesan Delegation for Interconfessional Relations of the Archdiocese of Valencia. Its founding president is Vicente Collado Bertoméu, a Catholic priest who also presides over the Diocesan Delegation for Interconfessional Relations and Interreligious Dialogue of Valencia. The founding members brought together a deliberately broad cross-section of Spain's religious landscape. They included Swami Rameshwarananda Giri Maharaj (Félix Balboa), a renunciant monk (sannyasi) of Advaita Vedanta; Sheikh Mansur Mota (Vicente Manuel Mota), imam of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Valencia and president of the association Nuevos musulmanes españoles; Isaac Sananes Haserfaty, president of the Israelite Community of Valencia; Venerable Tenzin Choky (Paloma Alba), a Buddhist nun ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala; Ricardo García García, vice-rector general and for strategic planning of the Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir; Juan Maria Tellería Larrañaga, a graduate in Classical Philology specialising in Greek and in Hispanic Philology; Cristino Enrique Robles Perea, representative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and a graduate in Dogmatic Theology; Sergey Prosandeev, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church and rector of the parish of Saint George in Valencia; and Krishna Kripa Dasa (Joan Carles Ramchandani), a purohit (Hindu priest) who is president of the Hindu Federation of Spain and vice-president of the Hindu Forum of Europe. The forum's mission is to interpret the diverse spiritual worldviews of its members from the perspective that they are expressions of one and the same spiritual reality, and to be an example of fraternity, solidarity and spirituality. Its public statements describe a context of political, social, economic and above all human deterioration that generates uncertainty, distrust and even despair, and argue that despite globalisation people live isolated from one another. Against this, the forum proposes a culture of dialogue, alliance and the absolute rejection of all forms of imposition and violence, presenting the culture of peace through respect for the other as the dawn announcing humanity's future. It frames its work around a principle of unity that is not syncretism, and around the acceptance of transcendence as the shared ground of belief. On 25 November, the forum organised the Madrid session of the 8th Meeting of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, promoted by the Elijah Interfaith Institute, where participants were received by Cardinal Carlos Osoro. This event illustrates the forum's connection to wider international interfaith networks. The organisation maintains a public presence through its website, transcendence.es, which presents its manifesto and its member traditions — Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, religions of India, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith — alongside reflections on contemporary social and spiritual challenges.

• Transcendence, International Interreligious Forum founded at the Faculty of Theology San Vicente Ferrer in Valencia, presided over by Vicente Collado Bertoméu.

• Organised the Madrid session of the 8th Meeting of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, promoted by the Elijah Interfaith Institute; participants received by Cardinal Carlos Osoro.

An interreligious forum promoting dialogue, fraternity and spiritual unity among faith traditions in Spain and internationally.

• International Interreligious Forum (FIIT)

  The forum's core platform for dialogue among religious representatives in Spain.

• Interfaith encounters and joint declarations

  Meetings, manifestos and public statements promoting dialogue, fraternity and spiritual unity.

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