Congress
III Congress
Declaration of members of the First Congress | Declaration of members of the First Congress |
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We, members of the First Congress of leaders of world and traditional religions, hold in 23-24 September, 2003 in Astana city, capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Recognizing the right of each person for free choice, expression and confession of own religion, Considering the interfaith dialogue as one of the most important instrument of the maintenance of peace and harmony among peoples and nations, Supporting the efforts of United Nations, other concerned international and religious organizations, and also governments, non-governmental and civil society organizations for the advancement of dialogue among civilizations, Confirming the importance of religions for prosperity of all mankind, Denouncing the wrong presentation of religions and wrong usage of differences among religions as achievement methods of egoistic, destructive and violent aims, Realizing
Declare: Advancement of such values as tolerance, truth, fairness and love should be as aim of any religious sermon, Extremism, terrorism and other forms of violence in the name of religion have nothing in common with real understanding of religion; they are threat for human's life and according to this should be rejected, Variety of religious beliefs and confessions should bring not to mutual suspicion, discrimination and humiliation, but to ê mutual perception and harmony, demonstrating the originality of each religion and culture, Religions should work for the better cooperation, accepting the tolerance and mutual acceptance as essential instruments of peaceful co-existence of all peoples, Educational programs and facilities of the social intercourse should be important instruments for the advancement of positive approaches to religions and cultures, Interfaith dialogue is the one of key methods of public development and improvement of prosperity of all peoples, encouragement of tolerance of all peoples, mutual understanding and harmony among different cultures and religions, and it also helps to overcome conflicts and violence, All human society should be encouraged for overcoming of detestation, animosity, intolerance and xenophobia, We should strengthen the cooperation for advancement of spiritual values and culture of dialogue for the propose of provision of peace in new millennium, We are ready to make all efforts to prevent the usage of religious differences as instrument of detestation and discord, and save the mankind from global conflict of religions and cultures, We are expecting joint actions for the provision of peace and progress for mankind and for the provision of stability in societies as basics of harmonious world in future, We thank the Republic of Kazakhstan and His Excellency President Nursultan Nazarbaev for initialization and holding of this Congress, May our engagements will be blessed and may the fairness, peace and prosperity for all people will be gifted. |
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