Iraq to host conference on religious tolerance
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Baghdad - Iraq will host a conference on religious tolerance and dialogue in October, a leading Baghdad daily reported Wednesday. Religious leaders of all faiths from around Iraq and the world would gather in Baghdad for a conference on religious dialogue organized by the US Institute for Peace, Baghdad's daily al-Sabbah said. The daily said the conference would conclude with a final statement and a series of fatwas, or religious opinions from Muslim scholars, prohibiting the killing of any Iraqi, "whether he be Muslim, Christian, or a member of any sect or denomination." Following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the country slid into a civil war fuelled by sectarian divisions that had been masked under the Saddam regime. Sectarian violence still affects some areas of the country, in particular the northern city of Mosul.
Copyright DPA
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