AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): An interfaith dialogue between Islam and Christianity is planned to be held in Zimbabwe next week.
The Iranian Cultural Center in Zimbabwe will organize the event in cooperation with the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization’s Center for Dialogue among Religions and Cultures and a number of religious and scholarly bodies of the African country.
The Arrupe Jesuit University in Harare will host the gathering on Friday, February 24.
It will discuss social and religious developments in the region and in the world, with a focus on relations between Christians and Muslims in Zimbabwe.
Senior Zimbabwean religious leaders, university scholars and directors of religious institutes as well as ambassadors of a number of countries and scholars from Iran will take part in the meeting.
Importance of religious values in sustaining peaceful coexistence among followers of faiths, Islam and peaceful coexistence, Islam and answering social-economic challenges, and terrorism in Africa, will be among the topics to be discussed at the scholarly event.
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa. Most of the people are Christians as over 80 percent of 16 million Zimbabweans follow one of the denominations of Christianity.
Muslims make up about one percent of the country’s population.
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