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World leaders gather for faith debate James Reinl, United Nations Correspondent, The National UAE November 11. 2008 The growing spectre of religious discord spurred faith leaders to organise seminars in which Jews, Christians, Muslims and – in some cases – leaders of non-Abrahamic creeds, strived for consensus on doctrinal discrepancies. NEW YORK // As world leaders converge on Manhattan this morning for one of the most well-attended inter-religion debates, organisers hope the event will help improve relations among the world’s faithful. The initiative of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has attracted a bevy of statesmen including George W Bush, the US president, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti Emir, and Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister. With the clock ticking, diplomats at UN headquarters have spent... [read full story]
