Damascus forum on religion and ideology

Participants in the 'Forum on Religion and Ideology', held at the John the Damascene Monastery in Damascus, underscored importance of democratic dialogue and the national unity among all members of the society.

During the overnight forum, the participants asserted that ideology means a set of knowledge principles tackled by the Islamic thought, such as the science of logic, and concept of preaching for the religion ( Da'awa), and in Christianity as manifested by the missionary.

Deliberations also touched upon the relation between religion and the state, man's rights and duties, hope, individual self-accountability and jurisprudence.

The forum was sponsored by al-Ma'arej Magazine for Quranic Studies and Dialogue among Religions' with the cooperation of Patriarchate of Roman Catholics, and attended by a great number of clergymen, intellectuals and politicians as well as several Arab and foreign ambassadors and media men.