Anglican chief echoes call for faiths to renounce all violence
By staff writers
22 Oct 2007

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the world's 77 million Anglicans, has endorsed a strong statement against religiously sanctioned violence by Pope Benedict at an inter-faith conference this weekend.

"In a world wounded by conflict, where violence is often committed in God's name, it is vital to repeat that religion should not be a vehicle of hatred," the Pope told an audience of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews and Zoroastrians at a peace summit.

The 200-strong audience included the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Yona Metzger, Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Mousavi Bojnourdi of Iran, and Bartholemew I, the ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church.
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