World Religion Leaders Urged to Find Ways for Stopping Act of Burning Holy Quran
TEHRAN (Iran News) Addressing the 21nd Meeting of the Secretariat of Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religious Leaders held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Dr. Ali Akbar Ziaee touched upon some of the goals of the Center for Interreligious and intercultural Dialogue of the Islamic Republic of Iran and promoting unity and solidarity among the leaders and followers of divine religions with the aim of facing the spiritual and political crises of the world collectively is the priority number one of the center.
Establishing and promoting greater cooperation and consensus with religious institutions and personalities as well as organizing and participating in dialogues to promote the actualization of justice and social rights of the followers of the religions are of the other goals of the center, Ziaee added.
He then said that the final statement of the 7th Congress categorically emphasized freedom of speech, respecting each other and not using religion for political purposes, noting that thus the act of burning the Holy Quran by some people with political motives is completely contrary to these principles and should be condemned in the strongest possible way and the leaders of the world and traditional religions should join hands to find the ways and means of preventing the repetition of this hateful and tension-causing act because creating any kind of religious tensions on purpose is like a fire on ready-to-ignite firewood and it may easily get out of control and have irreparable consequences.
Ziaee further urged the Congress to adopt appropriate and effective approaches toward the existing challenges of the new and expressed hope that this meeting would achieve its greatest objectives.
