A4 Religious Leaders Pledge Peace Participants at the four-day Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders in New York signed a detailed statement pledging to work for world peace.
Mecca proved to be the right place for a meeting under Saudi patronage and warring Iraqi Sunni and Shia leaders and religious scholars pledged to end Muslim bloodshed.
On January 12 , 2002 in a lengthy speech that was broadcast on Pakistani national television, Musharraf denounced religious extremists, pledged to reform Islamic schools in Pakistan, and announced a formal ban on five jihadi groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad.
The question was whether school children with religious objections to pledging allegiance to the flag could be required to do so, on pain of expulsion from school.
The pope also called for "increased dialogue among the world's religious communities" and pledged to oppose restrictions on religious freedom, according to a statement released by the World Jewish Congress after a private meeting at the Vatican.
Shinui's fortunes soared in the January elections as its leader, Yosef Lapid, a feisty ex-journalist, called for an end to "religious coercion" and pledged to seek the removal of privileges afforded ultra-Orthodox Jews.
In response to fears that companies or faith groups could become sponsors to exploit pupils for their business interests or impose their religious ideas, Gove pledged to ensure that schools did not teach "bogus science" or "fake theories".
The Islamic Defenders Front, a hardline group with a long record of vandalising nightspots, hurling stones at western embassies and attacking rival religious groups, has pledged to disrupt the event if it is allowed to be held in Indonesia.
With quasi-religious fervor, they pledge never to raise them again.
Assuring them of the support of the worlds religious communities, I pledged to establish an Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children to help realize the commitment to quality education made by the world leaders in the meetings outcome document entitled A World Fit for Children.
