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March 31, 2009

Faith and Values Organizations Form Coalition to Advance United Nations Decade for Inter-religious Cooperation for Peace

Religions for Peace, the world’s largest and most representative multi-religious coalition, was among the 45 religious, interfaith, and value-based organizations from five continents that agreed to form a coalition to advance a “United Nations Decade for Inter-religious and Intercultural Dialogue,
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March 26, 2009

Annual Meeting between Vatican and Al-Azhar Held in Rome

The Joint Committee for Dialogue, established in 1998, held its annual meeting in Rome on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 February 2009; it was jointly presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and by Prof. Sheikh Ali Abd al-Baqi Shahata, Secretary General of the Academy for Islamic Research of al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt.
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March 14, 2009

DICID Welcomes French Ambassador and Comité Colbert President

Yesterday Dr. Yusuf Al-Siddiqi, the executive director of DICID received HE Mr. Gilles Bonnaud, French Ambassador to Qatar. The ambassador was accompanied by Mrs. Elisabeth Ponsolle des Portes, president of Comité Colbert.
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