Guaranteeing the rights of Religious Minorities 6th session of the Forum on Minority Issues Freedom of conscience and religion as binding factor in the interreligious dialogue. Dr Carmen Asiain Pereira President Latin-American Consortium of Religious Freedom The binding factor Report of union experiences in defence of common values in Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, in which the representatives of religious faiths -minorities and majorities – coordinated efforts in the promotion and promoting legislative measures to the benefit of all religions, especially in the full and effective enjoyment of the fundamental right of conscience and faith. Uruguay, May 2012: the representative of the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay (Jesuits priest of the Catholic Church, majority faith), an orthodox rabbi and one of the conservatory and modern school are seated around a table, shoulder to shoulder, a priest of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and his treasurer, by his side the pastor and president of Evangelical Council of Representativeness of Uruguay and members of his Directive Commission, representatives of the Anglican Church, Methodist Church, Conference of Christian Churches (Lutherans and Calvinists, Federation of Evangelical Churches), of the Jehovah’s Witnesses , of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), of the Church of God of Uruguay – Worldwide missions, Afro-Brazilian religions – Afroumbanda y supporting the initiative reuniting the representatives of the practice totally of religious groups existing in Uruguay, an institutional representation of the Jewish-Christian Brotherhood. Polytheists along with monotheistic, Christians along with Jewish, Christian churches of long history – Lutherans, Calvinists, Mennonite, seated around the same table with neo-Christians, post-Protestants or Modern Evangelical Churches, Catholic-Roman-Apostolic along with protestants; all of them, elbow to elbow, appearing after having requested a common agreement hearing to the Human Rights Commission of the House of Representatives of the State Parliament, in unanimous support for a legislative initiative. What was the initiative which received a unanimous and unconditional support of minority and majority religions? It was not any initiative about politics, nor public opinion, or economic issue. It was not any issue of security, nor joining forces for the inclusion of religion in public education. It was not either a shared view towards the defence for life from conception or against legalisation of abort or assisted human reproduction, nor against other legislative measures recently approved, such as same-sex marriage and adoption. It was neither the philosophy of gender nor positions in defence of women’s rights. The topic which reunited the soul of different religious groups was de defence of a common value, the freedom of religion and consciousness.