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July 06, 2008 Sunday Rajab 2, 1429



Saudi king to launch inter-faith dialogue on 16th


RIYADH, July 5: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose country is home to Islam’s holiest shrines, will launch an inter-faith conference in Spain later this month, the palace said on Saturday.

The Saudi monarch “will inaugurate the international dialogue conference which will be held under his auspices in Madrid on July 16-18,” a statement carried by the official SPA news agency said.

The agency said the king had left for Morocco on a private visit ahead of the conference, due to be attended by Christians, Jews and Muslims.

In March, King Abdullah proposed talks among the three largest monotheistic religions in a first for the kingdom.

Last month the Makkah-based Muslim World League said the Madrid meeting would bring together representatives from the “followers of God’s messages and other cultures”. The term “other cultures” appeared to refer to non-monotheistic religions.

The conference will “discuss cooperation between communities from different religions and cultures over common human values”, the league’s secretary general Abdullah al-Turki said.

Leading Islamic scholars meeting in Makkah in June also proposed creating a centre to promote relations between religions. Last November King Abdullah met Pope Benedict XVI during the first official visit to the Vatican by a monarch from the Saudi kingdom.—AFP







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