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AGA KHAN SPEAKS ON ROLE OF FAITHS AND MINORITIES IN AFRICA - 2000-09-25

Posted July 10th, 2007 by heritage
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Monday, 2000, September 25
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Mowlana Hazar Imam took part in the 2 days Peace conference in Lisbon with other religious leaders. Mowlana Hazar Imam took part in the 2 days Peace conference in Lisbon with other religious leaders. Accepting human differences, building upon pluralism, insisting on honesty in public service and creating national and international responses to the AIDS crisis were, the Aga Khan said, the components of 'a new social ethic that should be taught and led by the faiths.' 'Social ethic today in Africa,' he stressed, 'needs to be founded not on the notion of taking, but on the notion of giving. 'One of the principal forces for the creation of peace,' said the Aga Khan 'is hope, and faith communities working together on immediate and realistic priorities, can revive that hope..

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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV
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