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Article: WORLD RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO MEET AT THE UN TO PROMOTE PEACE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2000
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For as long as human beings have organized themselves into
religious groups, those groups have found reasons to fight.
Wars have been fought in the name of many major faiths, and there
was even a series of wars in 16th-century France that are known as
the Wars of Religion.
Over just the past 50 years, 27 million people have been killed in
armed conflicts of one form or another.
And today, many conflicts throughout the world have religious
roots, including in the Balkans, Chechnya, the Middle East, and
Sudan.
But now an affiliate of the United Nations is trying to harness
the avowed commitment of religious leaders to peace.
Starting Monday at the United Nations, more than 1,000 religious
and ...