Baku hosting int’l conference on religion and multiculturalism

  01 December 2016    Read: 1210
Baku hosting int’l conference on religion and multiculturalism
An international conference titled “Religious tolerance traditions in the Caucasus and Azerbaijan’s model of multiculturalism” kicked off on December 1 in Baku.
Members of the Supreme Religious Council of the Caucasus Peoples, state and religious figures, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Georgian Orthodox Church, and ambassadors of a number of countries have attended the conference chaired by Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office Sheik-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazade, AzVision.az reports.

The conference was opened by the message of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and then a video dedicated to multiculturalism in Azerbaijan was displayed.

Allahshukur Pashazade said that the conference serves to peace in the Caucasus and its protection against the backdrop of the racial, national, ethnic and other conflicts taking place across the world. The Sheik-ul-Islam said that Azerbaijan demonstrates a model of tolerance in this sense.

The conference is going on.

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