A global interfaith conference organised by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) will be held here in September, with President Halimah Yacob and Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong scheduled to speak. This is the second time the International Conference on Cohesive Societies (ICCS) is being organised by RSIS, after the first in 2019. It will bring together leaders from policy, community, academic and religious spheres from around the world to discuss key challenges pulling at the social fabric in their societies, and approaches to managing them. RSIS Executive Deputy Chairman Ong Keng Yong, who is also Ambassador-at-Large at the Foreign Ministry, noted that the current digital era and new technologies have changed the way people live, work and play. He said: “ICCS 2022 will be a useful platform to discuss how technologies can be a positive force in facilitating online worship, especially during a global crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, and in managing interfaith exchanges and relationships.”