All is set for the conduct Monday in Metro Manila of a more comprehensive Muslim-Christian dialogue for better understanding, even as officials Sunday urged representatives from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao to attend the Australian government-backed forum.

The Peacemakers’ Circle Foundation, Inc. (PCFI), a partner sponsor of the Australian embassy, said the affair will start at 9 a.m. at the Balay Kalinaw, UP campus in Diliman, Quezon City.

The sponsors have the conceived affair, dubbed as Muslim-Christian Dialog and Understanding, in the spirit of “solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters this holy month of Ramadan and in celebration of the United Nation’s Month of Peace,” PCFI Executive Director Marites Africa said.

Since 2003, Africa said, the PCFI has “engaged in grassroots” in Metro Manila where it staged various forums of “building bridges of understanding” amid perceived “prejudices about Muslims and Islam.”

“During the course of our endeavors these past six years, one of the difficult challenges we’ve had to face was that of dealing with the fear of Islam and of Muslims among the predominantly Christian populace,” the PFCI official said in a media advisory.