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Junior Cycle Religious Education: Interfaith dialogue
How often Interfaith dialogue comes up on the Religious Education papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Interfaith dialogue, Common Level(7 marks)
Quick ones on Interfaith dialogue.
(a)Interfaith dialogue means…
- Trying to merge all religions into one single faith
- Respectful talks between people of different faiths
- Debating to prove which religion is the true one
(b)Ecumenism is dialogue and cooperation between…
- Hindus and Buddhists
- Christians, Jews and Muslims
- Different Christian churches
(c)In 1986, Pope John Paul II invited leaders of many religions to pray for peace in which Italian town?
- Assisi
- Pisa
- Venice
Show the answers
(a) Respectful talks between people of different faiths
(b) Different Christian churches
(c) Assisi
Common Level
Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Not asked |
| 2024 | Q5 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Religious Education topics
- Big questions & meaning of life
- Communities of faith & daily life
- Non-religious rituals
- Organisations for peace & justice
- Prayer & meditation
- Religious moral codes
- Sacred places & pilgrimage
- Sacred texts
- Care for the earth
- Christianity in Irish heritage
- Compassion & justice
- Founders & founding stories
- Key beliefs of world religions
- Living a morally good life
- Moral issues & decision-making
- Non-religious world views
- Religious rituals & ceremonies
- Religious themes in culture
- Stages of faith
- Conscience & moral influences
- People of commitment
- Places of worship
- Religious festivals
- Symbols & sacred objects
- Values in everyday life
- Creation stories
- Forgiveness & reconciliation
- Understanding of the Divine