Helsinki, 26 September 2025

We, members of the Board of Religions for Peace Europe, leaders of diverse faiths, ethnicities, and beliefs, leaderships and representatives of Interreligious Councils of Europe, European National Interreligious Bodies, European Council of Religious Leaders, European Women of Faith Network and the European Interfaith Youth Network, participating in the Annual Board Meeting of Religions for Peace Europe, held in Helsinki on 26 September 2025, have gathered to reaffirm our commitment to a transformative vision that addresses the challenges facing our region.

Our region is experiencing an unprecedented polycrisis, from populism and xenophobia, deepening social fragmentation, the ongoing war in Ukraine and Gaza, growing displacement of refugees and migrants, ecological crisis, and spiritual alienation. We assert that the prevailing worldview-one based on materialism and individualism-to address these challenges has been fundamentally inadequate by excluding the sacred and its web of life from the understanding of human flourishing.

The concept of Shared Sacred Flourishing is presented as a framework that seeks to restore the spiritual and moral dimension of integral and sustainable human development. Our faith traditions, although diverse in beliefs, share essential values such as mercy, love, compassion, solidarity, and reverence for creation, offering a common language to understand life with meaning and responsibility rather than only through material or technocratic logic. Ultimately, Shared Sacred Flourishing envisions a world where unity-amongst people and our planet-is realised. In this horizon, flourishing is understood as a process in which human beings and communities rediscover their potential and respond to the deep call of the sacred.

Finally, in this context, we adopt the Shared Sacred Flourishing initiative for Europe, because it provides a response to the challenges of our region, with reverence for the sacred, respect for human dignity, commitment to social cohesion and peace, and care for life and creation. Consonant with the Statement of the Religions for Peace World Council “Shared Sacred Flourishing: A New Vision for Global Transformation” of July 29, 2025, and in continuity with the regional commitments of our sisters and brothers in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbeans, and in keeping with our motto of “Different Faiths, Common Action,” we commit ourselves to work to advance Shared Sacred Flourishing in Europe and beyond.