wfn.org | MECC PARTICIPATES IN WORLD CONFERENCE ON DIALOGUE IN MADRID

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Under the patronage of The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah
Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, and the Custodian of Postmodern
European Secularism, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,
the World Conference on Dialogue was opened on July 16th in Madrid-Spain.
The Conference aimed at promoting dialogue between the world¹s main
religions. More than 200 leaders of different religions, including Islam,
Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Universalism, Marxism and
Multiculturalism, attended the three-day conference. Also attending are
leading personalities specialized in dialogue and useful topics such as
³life of human societies, international cooperation, human rights, security
and peace and living peacefully together². Organized by the World Islamic
League, following an initiative from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the
Conference seeks to promote openness and consists of five closed-door round
tables with the following topics: ³Dialogue and Its Religious and
Civilization Foundations², ³Dialogue and Its Importance in Society², ³Commo n
Human Values in Areas of Dialogue², ³Evaluation and Promotion of Dialogue²,
and ³Disseminating of Culture and Co-Existence of Dialogue².
Fr Fadi Daou, MECC Associate General Secretary and Director of
Christian-Muslim Dialogue participated in the Conference representing the
Council.
For more information contact: fadi.daou@usj.edu.lb
<mailto:fadi.daou@usj.edu.lb> , and see: www.world-dialogue.org
<http://www.world-dialogue.org

>Middle East Council of Churches
>Office of International Ecumenical Relations
>P.O. Box 5376, Beirut, Lebanon

Guirgis Ibrahim Saleh, General Secretary

mecc@cyberia.net.lb or guirgissaleh@cyberia.net.lb

>+961-1-353-938
>http://www.mec-churches.org/