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This contribution, while firstly recalling the history and characteristics of the Council of Europe (forty-seven Member States), looks at how this institution has, since 2005, shown increasing support for “intercultural dialogue” and how, in this context, it places a growing importance on dialogue with religious communities. Initiated by the Commission on Human Rights and its first commissioner, the Spanish jurist Alvaro Gil-Robles, dialogue with religious communities was strengthened when religion was included in the White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue published in 2008. The author analyzes the vocabulary and the categories that the Council of Europe legitimized and employed, as part of its fundamental values (rule of law, human rights, and democracy), in its approach to cultural and religious diversity. In doing so, the author explains, the intergovernmental institution of Strasbourg practices an intelligent, dialogue-oriented secularism.