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Religious leaders to focus on democracy, respect for HRs in Brussels
By: Anjum Kermani
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Leaders and representatives
of leading world religions are to hold a meeting in Brussels
on May 30 at the initiative of European Commission President
Jose Manuel Barroso and Chancellor and President of the EU
Council Wolfgang Schessel.
According to a Commission statement several Christian
denominations, Islamic and Jewish communities have agreed to
take part in the one-day meeting that will focus on freedom,
democracy and respect for human rights.
Ayatullah Seyyed Abbas Ghaemmaghai, director of the Islamic
Centre in Hamburg, Anas Schakfeh, president of the Islamic
Community in Austria and Imam Abduljalil Sajid, chairman of
the Muslim Council for Religious and Racial Harmony, UK, have
been invited to attend the meeting representing the Islamic
community here.
The meeting will also be attended by the Buddhist spiritual
leader, the Dalai Lama.
What role can religious communities play in assuaging rising
tensions? What can they expect from European institutions?
These are just two of the questions that religious leaders
will be considering in the meeting.
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Occupying Islamic territories ‘a threat’ to Muslims: OIC envoy
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ISFAHAN, Iran: Representative of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to the Confab of police chiefs of Islamic nations Kamal Seifullah al-Momeni said occupying Islamic territories constitutes a blatant threat to the entire Muslim nations.
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"Knowledge is
better than wealth because it protects you while you have to
guard wealth. it decreases if you keep on spending it but the
more you make use of knowledge ,the more it increases . what you
get through wealth disappears as soon as wealth disappears but
what you achieve through knowledge will remain even after you."MORE
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