International, interfaith webinar on World Day of the Sick 2025

To celebrate the 2025 World Day of the Sick and in keeping with the IAHPC vision of a world free from health-related suffering, this webinar provides a glimpse into how spiritual care practitioners from different faiths and settings engage with patients and their caregivers.

Spirituality is defined as a dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity through which persons seek ultimate meaning, purpose, and transcendence, and experience relationship to self, family, others, community, society, nature, and the significant or sacred. All the world’s major faiths support palliative care, as documented in the Religions of the World Charters for Palliative Care for Children, and for Older Persons.

This webinar is one way the palliative care community can build resilient hope for the world by engaging in conversations and partnerships for action with faith communities and others to promote access to palliative care as a way to advance the common good.