There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues
as well
as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a
moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense
conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical
teachings.