Source: Religious Intelligence
http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=863
THE ANGLICAN and Roman Catholic bishops of New Zealand have released a National Statement on Religious Diversity calling for a tolerant pluralism among the country’s religious groups.
The bishops’ call came during the third Asia-Pacific Regional Interfaith Dialogue, which was held last month in Waitanga, New Zealand. The government-sponsored conference drew political and religious leaders from 15 Asia-Pacific nations to New Zealand for talks aimed at promoting peace, regional security and religious tolerance.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark (pictured) told the gathering, which included Philippine President Gloria Arroyo and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, that the dialogue was initiated in the wake of the Bali terror bombings to promote understanding between Islamic and Western countries.
It sought to bring “people together to find common cause irrespective of the boundaries that over the decades and millennia we've erected between ourselves," Ms Clark said.