The King of Saudi Arabia opened a new interfaith centre in Vienna this week with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a keynote speaker.
The King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) centre has board members from five major world religions including major leaders from the Muslim and Jewish faiths.
Mr Ban Ki-moon welcomed the centre’s “commitment to open the door to all world religions. I share with you the vision of religions as enabler of respect and reconciliation.”
Israeli board member Rabbi David Rosen praised King Abdullah as “a man of vision. He has already improved enormously the status of women in his country and really wants to advance the international image of Islam.
