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Muslim-Christian Summit Appeals for Peace

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  2/24/1997 		The Roman Catholic lay association, the Community of Sant'Egidio, sponsored a Muslim-Christian summit Oct. 3-4 at the organization's international headquarters in Rome. The gathering issued a statement declaring: "Peace is God's name and indeed this name must be worshipped beyond any incomprehension and difficulty. May no one say again that his religion encourages him to war and that it shows him violence as the way to solve conflicts. May no one use God's name to kill innocent and defenseless victims. Those who use God's name to hate and who choose ways of violence abandon the pure religion."

The Community of Sant'Egidio, holder of the 1997 World Methodist Peace Award, appealed "to those who have responsibilities in the great religions of the world so that the word justice may never and nowhere in the world frighten innocent people, men and women of faith and goodwill, and so that wisdom may help finding ways to eradicate violence from the world, healing the wounds and not making new ones."

Read the full statement.
October 10, 2001

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