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Aga Khan, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu expected at 2010 G8 Counter-Summit - 2009-03-19

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Thursday, 2009, March 19
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At counter-conference to coincide with the annual G8 political leaders' conference planned for the Deerhurst Resort near Huntsville., there will be top representatives from all the world's major faiths, including South Africa's Desmond Tutu and the Aga Khan. The Dalai Lama also hopes to attend.


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Politicians attending meeting in Muskoka will get push to aid the poor, environment - 2009-03-19

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TheStar.com

When the world's most powerful government leaders gather in cottage country next year to discuss how to get the global economy back on track, religious leaders from around the world will be on hand to push them to remember the poor and the environment.

"How can the G8 ignore it if all these voices are speaking together," asks Rev. Karen Hamilton, general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches.

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