Indonesian envoy visits WCC to promote interreligious dialogue

&NewLine;<p>The special envoy of the president of Indonesia for Interfaith and Intercivilizational Dialogue and Cooperation Dr Syafiq A&period; Mughni&comma; visited the World Council of Churches &lpar;WCC&rpar; and met with the general secretary Rev&period; Dr Olav Fykse Tveit  and Peter Prove&comma; director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs&comma; in Geneva 4 July&comma; 2019&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a press release by WCC and&NewLine;made available to OpenLife&comma; Dr Mughni expressed his appreciation for the WCC&NewLine;promoting human rights and fighting against xenophobia and Islamophobia&period;&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We have to see human rights as universal principles&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I have worked with several&NewLine;churches in Indonesia in the humanitarian context&comma; but this is the first&NewLine;opportunity I have to learn about the World Council of Churches&&num;8221&semi;&comma; said&NewLine;Mughni&comma; expressing particular interest in interreligious dialogue with Muslims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Dr Tveit said &&num;8220&semi;It is our&NewLine;duty as human beings and also as Christians to fight for the rights of&NewLine;everybody&period;&&num;8221&semi; Tveit added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I have learnt that Indonesia has the&NewLine;biggest Muslim population in the world&period; That shows how crucial are the&NewLine;interreligious relationships for you&period; I think you have an important task&comma; not&NewLine;only for your country but also to be a model for the world beyond&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Tveit continued&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We cannot&NewLine;give up&period; We have to believe in this project of one humanity&period; We need strong&NewLine;partners like you and your government to show what we want&comma; what we need&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Many of the 27 WCC member&NewLine;churches based in the South Asian country are engaged in interreligious&NewLine;dialogue with Muslim communities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Besides the few incidents&NewLine;when churches were attacked in Indonesia&comma; there is a strong sense of&NewLine;intercommunal solidarity between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia&period;&NewLine;Unfortunately&comma; this doesn&&num;8217&semi;t get the same attention from media&&num;8221&semi;&comma; said Peter&NewLine;Prove&comma; director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs&comma;&NewLine;who also attended the meeting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;