Indonesia Meeting Urges Greater Religious Tolerance
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Religious leaders from around Southeast Asia and Australia are urging greater efforts to promote tolerance and understanding. They met in Indonesia to build inter-religious bridges to reduce the threat posed by extremists.
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USUALLY trumpeted as a largely tolerant and syncretic brand of the religion, Islam in Indonesia has had some bad press in the past few months.
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Just days after yet another terrorist blast shook their confidence, Indonesians are looking forward to some good news Monday: Citizens in the world&#39;s largest Muslim
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Pope Benedict invited  Muslims on Tuesday to join a dialogue of cultures based on the  premise that the concept of an Islamic "holy war" is  unreasonable and against God's nature.
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Battered by one calamity after another, Indonesians have found a resilience that has amazed even foreign aid workers. It&#039;s rooted in a widely held belief that the troubles were sent by God, either as a test of their love for him or as punishment for straying from his teachings.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's tsunami  cleanup paused for prayer on Friday as President Susilo Bambang  Yudhoyono joined survivors crowding mosques in ravaged Aceh  province for an Islamic festival.
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A meeting with Muslim diplomats Monday was Pope Benedict XVI's latest effort to mend relations after remarks about Islam and violence that ignited the Vatican's most serious international crisis in decades.
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The Queen called for tolerance between Britain's different cultural and religious groups.
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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, urged Israel on Friday to stop excavations near Jerusalem's most important holy Islamic site, saying the move could worsen the Middle East conflict.
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Indonesia&#39;s new president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said Wednesday he is considering tougher laws to detain Islamic terrorists, which he said still pose a threat to his country, the world&#39;s most populous Muslim nation.
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Indonesiaâs Christians packed tightly guarded churches to celebrate Christmas today despite fears of terrorist attacks, while the president of the Philippines appealed for an end to corruption in a seasonal message.
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Indonesia&#39;s president left for war-torn Aceh Friday, where he will hold meetings with religious and government leaders in a bid to bring peace to the oil- and gas-rich region.
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The leader of Southeast Asia&#39;s biggest country, Indonesia, on Friday urged economic ministers from the region to put aside their differences and work toward economic integration akin to the European Union&#39;s.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia offered on  Wednesday to hold talks with rebels in tsunami-hit Aceh, hoping  to ease security fears in a stricken province where the  president said 40,000 people were still missing after the Dec.  26 disaster.
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VIENTIANE : Thailand&#39;s prime minister will meet the leaders of Malaysia and Indonesia on Sunday to explain his refusal to allow a major summit here to broach Muslim unrest in his country, an official said.
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Pope Benedict will meet Muslim   ambassadors to the Vatican and Italian Islamic leaders on   Monday to try to calm lingering anger over his use of a   medieval text saying their religion was spread by violence.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 21 -- The Dalai Lama and other spiritual leaders called Sunday for followers of the world's religions to work toward understanding each other rather than bickering over differences.