Religious tolerance has long been an important concept both within societies and faith traditions themselves, as a way of accommodating different beliefs and practices. This workshop seeks to explore all sides of this complex concept.
Enhance your spiritual journey on an unforgettable spiritual tour to some of the world’s most incredible religious locations. These inspirational itineraries allow you to renew your beliefs while considering centuries of religious history.
Religious Tolerance and Understanding
Traveling to religious sites, churches and places of worship on a European tour can be an incredible way for groups to strengthen their faith while deepening their knowledge about different faiths’ traditions and customs.
Tour operators that specializes in faith-based travel can provide expert planning, itinerary selection and booking services for religious tours. This will save pastors and church leaders from having to research and plan their trips themselves while guaranteeing travelers have an unforgettable experience and value for their money.
Experienced tour operators understand local laws regarding religious expression. This knowledge allows them to plan activities safely and culturally sensitively – including avoiding situations which could put travelers or their fellow tourists in jeopardy of legal action by local authorities – especially important when touring places with increasingly restrictive policies on religion.
Visiting a Sacred Site
Faith tours provide group travelers with a spiritually enriching experience by taking them to places with deep meaning – from following in Apostle Paul’s footsteps in Greece to pilgrimage sites like Fatima and Lourdes.
These itineraries will leave a lasting impression of wonder and inspiration when visited during a religious tour of Israel or exploring its ornate architecture in church settings.
Faith travel is an expanding subsector of group travel. Mission and humanitarian trips, pastor-led retreats and congregational leisure trips fall within this market segment. When planning their faith-based trip, group leaders should consult an experienced tour operator specializing in this market niche. Such tour operators understand the nuances associated with faith-based itineraries such as after-dinner devotionals or meeting locals practicing religion – not to mention local laws and customs surrounding religious expression and activities abroad that could cause any potential issues with local authorities.
Visiting a Holy Place
At faith-based tour operators, participants discover sacred spaces that uphold and empower. Visitors often become transfixed by the beauty and splendor of these holy spaces; experiencing emotional and spiritual transformation that lasts a lifetime can often result.
Globus Faith Tours provide Catholic pilgrimage tours to Italy that include visits to such revered landmarks as the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel as well as St. Peter’s Square and Basilica in Rome. In addition, these trips take participants to Altotting Chapel of Grace & Black Madonna as well as Oberammergau Passion Play – an event which only occurs every ten years!
Visiting a Church
Travelers looking to deepen their faith can visit Europe’s many religious-based destinations – ranging from Vatican City and Lutheran cathedrals in Germany, all the way through to Vatican City itself and everything in between – for spiritual renewal. With Globus and Cosmos religious travel tours offering tours with different itinerary options available to them.
As part of a Church History tour, for instance, you can stand in the church where Pilgrim pastor John Robinson preached his final sermon before joining his fellow English Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. Or you could visit Leiden’s historic Oude Kirk (Old Church) where pilgrims would congregate prior to leaving England for America.
Explore the origins of Christianity in the Holy Land on a group tour with Friendship Tours. On a Christian group tour, you can stand in the place where Jesus was born, witness his first miracle turning water into wine, visit King David’s tomb and more – truly making your Bible come to life on an experience lasting 10-15 days!
