global message on Bahraini experience in promoting peaceful coexistence among various religions and sects. The history of the Kingdom of Bahrain has always been characterized by religious coexistence in harmony, where all residents practice their faiths, religions, and beliefs freely. In 2017, the Kingdom of Bahrain held unique events in order to familiarize the world with Bahrain's model of religious freedom and peaceful coexistence throughout the centuries; “King Hamad's Global Centre for Interfaith Dialogue and Peaceful Co-existence” was launched in Los Angeles; and the “King Hamad Chair in Inter-Faith Dialogue and Peaceful Co-existence.” was launched at the Sapienza University in Rome. 7.4 The Kingdom of Bahrain is firmly committed to the protection of religious freedoms and respect for pluralism in its intellectual, cultural, and religious diversity, as an ideal means of preserving the specificity and status of the Kingdom of Bahrain as the home of love and peace. To this end, the “Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia”, the largest church in the Arabian Peninsula, is being constructed on a land donated by His Majesty the King and will be erected next to a new mosque. This is a clear evidence of the Kingdom's desire to retain its status and to expand it as a leading source of religious freedom and peaceful coexistence in the region. 7.5 The NIHR calls for the need to rationalize the religious discourse whatever its source is - and to refrain from advocating the hateful poison of sectarianism, or what can be interpreted as incitement to encourage violence, and to direct it towards nurturing the spirit of Parallel Report by the National Institution for Human Rights of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Human Rights Committee © 2018 43