Inter-Religious Council of Kenya

16/08/2026

From 17–28 August 2026, is the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), under the theme "Restoring Land. Restoring Hope."

This isn't just an environmental conversation. Degraded land drives instability, fuels displacement, and undermines human and national security in already fragile regions, a reality known too well by IRCK, working in peacebuilding and community resilience.

Land restoration is peace-building, food security, and climate action rolled into one.

16/08/2026

12/08/2026

12th August 2026: This , we're reminded that across every faith and community, young people share one hope: a future rooted in dignity and opportunity for all.

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11/08/2026

As we approach , our faith traditions all call us to the same thing: see young people not as the future, but as full members of the community today. Every scripture and teaching we hold reminds us to listen before we speak, to make room at the table, not just cheer from the sidelines.

Let's honor that call, listen to young people's ideas, walk with them as they co-design solutions, welcome them into decision-making spaces, and step back so they can lead. Faith communities have always been where the next generation learns to serve; let's make sure they're also where the next generation learns to lead.

07/08/2026

07/08/2026

Twenty-eight years. One Guide. One Forum. One resolve.

Today, at Pullman Nairobi Upper Hill and at the site of the 1998 bombing, the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) and the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) brought together religious leaders, theologians, government officials and development partners for a day that was both a remembrance and a milestone.

Twenty-eight years ago, Nairobi was shaken by an act of terror that took more than 200 lives and injured thousands. This morning, we stood together at the bomb blast site in an interfaith prayer Christian, Muslim and Hindu leaders united to honour the victims, the survivors and the first responders whose courage still shapes our national resilience. We do not simply mark a date. We remember real people, and we recommit, in word and practice, to a Kenya that is peaceful, secure and united.

But today was also the result of a much longer journey. For years, IRCK's theologians and technical team have worked reviewing scripture, engaging Religious Coordinating Bodies, and translating faith teaching into practical guidance to build a resource that could root Kenya's national security strategy in the trust that religious leaders already hold in every mosque, church and temple. That work reached its milestone today with the formal launch of the Faith Leaders' Guide to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (First Edition) a scripture-grounded, practical resource built around community awareness, prevention, early warning and early response, developed in direct support of Kenya's National Strategy to Prevent and Countering Violent Extremism (NSPCVE) 2025–2030.

Alongside the Guide, we formally activated the National Interfaith Forum on PCVE, standing platform, years in the making, uniting Religious Coordinating Bodies, theologians, NCTC and our partners in sustained, coordinated action, and unveiled the Secretariat and theologians who will carry this work forward. Faith leaders present committed to applying the Guide's principles compassion, human dignity, doing no harm, partnership and hope within their own congregations, and agreed on priority actions to carry the Forum's work beyond today's launch.

This is what faith-led PCVE looks like: not a ceremony held once and forgotten, but years of quiet work behind the scenes now translated into a resource, a Secretariat, and a Forum built to last. Our sincere thanks to NCTC, the US Embassy Nairobi, UNDP and every Religious Coordinating Body that walked this journey with us.

Kenya deserves peace, security and resilience anchored on faith and state working together. God bless Kenya.

05/08/2026

For years, the question of Muslim girls wearing the hijab in Christian-sponsored public schools quietly divided families, schools and congregations across , testing a social fabric that had held strong through drought, conflict, and political division.

Litigation was tried first, and it failed. So the matter came to the people who actually had to live with the outcome. The Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) had to mediate this delicate issue. What followed was months of hard, honest dialogue, marked by walkouts, silences and hard questions, but eventually trust was rebuilt.

On 4th August 2026, at Sand and Rock Resort in Saku, Christian and Muslim leaders signed a landmark resolution. Hijab is now part of the official school dress code in public religious-sponsored schools, with BOMs setting the standards, and no learner ever compelled or penalized either way.

This didn't happen alone. IRCK recognizes Christian Aid Kenya and Islamic Relief Kenya for partnership and support through the LIMCO project, the County Government of Marsabit, the CEC for Education, the County Director of Education for commitment to enable implementation, and TSC Marsabit for standing with schools through the process.

This MOU is more than a schoolyard policy. It is proof that Marsabit's social cohesion can survive its hardest tests, and a call to every leader, ahead of 2027, to choose the same road of dialogue over division.

Read the statement here: https://interreligiouscouncil.or.ke/ova_doc/marsabit-interfaith-leaders-reach-consensus-on-wearing-of-hijab-in-public-religious-sponsored-schools-and-renew-call-for-responsible-leadership-ahead-of-2027-general-election/