Kurdish, American clerics hold joint symposium in Washington to discuss convergence of religions

Erbil (NINA) – Clerics and academics from Kurdistan Region and the US held a symposium in Washington about the conditions of religions.

Media Manager of the Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry, Mariwan Nagshabandi, said in a statement today “the symposium which was held yesterday in Gonzaga University, Washington, was present by a number of instructors and academics in education, law, and religions in the university in addition to the members of the Kurdish delegation.”

He referred that the symposium tackled the “role of religions in achieving stability, and their relations to laws in the world and to bridge between different peoples of the world through constructive dialogue.”

Nagshabandi, head of the Kurdish delegation said the “American figures suggested opening an American Academy in Kurdistan to teach English and present the project to the competent authorities  in the region as a step towards opening an American University in Dohuk called (Media).”

The Kurdish delegation which comprises Muslim and Christian clerics, judges and journalists arrived in New York on August 9th, to take part in a world conference discussing the religious tolerance and the religion’s role in laws as well as the media’s role in convergence of religions and achieve world peace. /End/