The second Imams and Rabbis for Peace World Congress held in the Spanish city of Seville, condemned "every attack on people's religious beliefs. At the end of the congress, the 150 participants from all over the world called on the international community to promote respect toward religious beliefs and the sacred shrines "notably the holy land for its specific sensibility."The congress, under the auspices of Moroccan and Spanish kings, also condemned violence and wars led in the name of religion, calling for "life and human dignity respect."
Organized by the Seville-based "Trois Cultures" foundation in conjunction with "Hommes de parole," the four-day congress aimed to give the floor to Muslim and Jew peace lovers against "the integrists that preach and violence."
The congress brought together several participants among them king's advisor, André Azoulay, Moroccan university Al-Akhawayn President Rachid Benmokhtar, and Habous and Islamic Affairs ministry senior official Ahmed Abbadi in addition to Islamic educational, scientific and cultural organisation (ISESCO) director general, Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, great-Rabbis from Israel and Norway and the Imam of Ghaza (Palestine) as well as the Mufi of Istanbul.
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