In a region that was the birthplace of three world religions, intolerance can lead only to suffering and stagnation.
Islam was unique, I think, among the great world religions in the medieval period in making an explicit place for non-Muslims in society.
Political Islam prescribes a set of specific social, economic and legal practices in a way that is very different from the more general social teachings (such as calls to practice charity or strive for justice) found in the spiritual dimension of Islam, Christianity, Judaism and other world religions.
The meeting is organized jointly by the Caribbean and Latin-American Office of the World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) and the regional UNESCO Office for Education.
It was almost as if there was an "off" switch for the self, buried deep in our minds, and the world's religions were a thousand different ways of pressing the switch.
In partnership with the World Conference of Religions for Peace, a pilot scheme has been undertaken to reinforce Interreligious Women's Associations, through training-of-trainers workshops, in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
The world's major religions do not play a part in these killings - although many of the guilty have tried to justify their actions on religious grounds.
It is widely agreed that the root and cause of honour killing is a complex, historical phenomenon which has no justification in Islam's holy book, the Koran, and which has also been known to occur elsewhere in the world and among other religions.
We unite, recognizing that such crises call on all of us to act, recognizing that there but for the grace of God go I, recognizing that life's most sacred responsibility -- one affirmed, as Hillary said, by all of the world's great religions -- is to sacrifice something of ourselves for a person in need.
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Located in Vienna, the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue was established in November 2011 to encourage dialogue among cultures and religions across the world.
If we look at the great religions of the world we will see that the Buddhist philosophy before Christianity and before Islam spoke of dialogue as the most important content of human relations.
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It happens in all regions of the world, especially in rural areas, across religions, with the highest rates occurring in places like Mali, Nigeria, India and Nicaragua.
He says he now wants to work together with all people and all religions to bring about peace in the world.
Mr. FAKUR SHALAL (Volunteer Leader): (Through translator) We want to present the right face for the world, to show that we care about other religions because those who try to get rid of the Christians are not real Muslims.
The difference, of course, is that while religions often promise to deliver in the next world, government is supposed to do it in this one.
Mr. Malik insisted that these principles apply equally to all people, of all regions, of all religions, including the men and women of the Arab world that was his home.
This is a familiar complaint of secular Western elites who think that religions need to be less religious to survive in the modern world.
Nevertheless, many Chinese are looking to Buddhism, Taoism and even brand-new religions to slake a thirst that all the Cokes in the world won't abate.
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Great religions are wise enough to avoid marking down the exact date when the world comes to an end.
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