Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with the Director-General of the King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with the Director-General of the King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион встретился с генеральным директором Международного центра межрелигиозного и межкультурного диалога имени Короля Абдаллы print version July 9, 2018 19:49 On July 9, 2018, the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate met with the head of the DECR, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, with Fahad Abu Al-Nasr, Director General of the International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue named after King Abdullah (KAICIID). The center was founded in Vienna in 2012 by Saudi Arabia, Austria, Spain and the Holy See. The professional activity of the general director of KAICIID is focused on the development of interreligious dialogue, especially among representatives of the younger generation. The meeting was attended by the Metropolitan of Gallic Emmanuel ( Constantinople Patriarchate ), who is on the board of directors of KAICIID, an organization known for its interreligious projects around the world. Besides, the senior program manager for the Arab countries of the program department of KAICIID Vashem Haddad participated in the conversation. There was a discussion of issues of cooperation in the field of interreligious interaction.