Astana interreligious dialog - a big progress: I. Noko
13:24, 2 July 2009
ASTANA. July 2. KAZINFORM. /Valentina Yelizarova/ Dr.Ishmael Noko, Secretary General of the Lutheran World Federation has noted big efficiency of the congress of world and traditional religions' leaders held in Astana.
I. Noko has participated in all three forums held here. Today he is a moderator of the second section "Dialogue and Cooperation".
"We have achieved big progress, learned to understand and listen to each other", he said summarizing the results of the section. "The fact that we all gathered here is a big progress", he said.
He also expressed hope that the congress participants would develop mechanisms of realization of the tasks on promotion of the concepts of tolerance.