His Majesty King Abdullah chats on Tuesday with Muslim and Christian clerics who have completed an interfaith dialogue meeting in Amman (Photo by Yousef Allan)
During the meeting, King Abdullah lauded participants’ efforts and emphasised the importance of the forum, held under the theme “Reason, Faith and Mankind”, in promoting dialogue and highlighting the common values among followers of the different religions.
“The forum is the outcome of ongoing initiatives to foster concepts embraced by both Muslims and Christians, which we have asserted in the Amman Message and the Common Word initiative,” King Abdullah told the participants.
The Amman Message is a statement Jordan issued in 2004 calling for tolerance and explaining Islam’s rejection of violence and intolerance and its stand on issues like the relationship between the Muslim nation and other civilisations and communities.
In 2007, Jordan led efforts where 138 Muslim scholars drafted “A Common Word Between Us and You”, to declare the common ground between Christianity and Islam.
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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has held ‘religious founder’s day’ functions for the last 100 years. It is good to see that in 2007 Jordan also started (copied) this initiative of Interreligious Harmony functions.