ICC Note:
A two-day conference was held at Al-Azhar University in Cairo and with a reported 600 Christian and Muslim leaders from more than 50 countries attending. The goal of this conference was to bring together both groups in a spirit of “mutual co-existence” to condemn and reform the use of religious violence to further political agendas. It is unknown whether such an event will initiate a lasting reduction in persecution, but it is positive that the conference spreads awareness of religious violence and discrimination.
3/06/2017 Egypt (Asia News) – Christian and Muslim religious leaders, politicians and intellectuals ended the conference on ‘Freedom and Citizenship: Diversity and Integration’ sponsored by Al-Azhar University, in Cairo (Egypt) by firmly condemning the use of “violence in the name of religion” and renewing the call for “harmony” and “mutual respect” between different faiths in a State that guarantees for everyone the right of citizenship and equal treatment.
The two-day symposium (28 February-1 March) organised by the most important Sunni institution in the world brought together more than 600 people from more than 50 Arab and non-Arab countries in the world.
At the end of the two-day event, with speeches by Islamic and Christian religious leaders on Tuesday and by politicians and intellectuals on Wednesday, Al-Azhar issued an informal joint declaration on “mutual co-existence”.
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