The WSD Chairman Dr.Haruhisa Handa hosted this year's forum. The venue was Hotel New Otani Makuhari, in Chiba Prefecture on June 8. He stressed that religious voices should be included in the context of wolrd peace and prosperity, saying, "G20 leaders cannot ignore religious leaders as 84 percent of the world's population is religiously affiliated," referring to the demographic studies published in December 2012 by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life.
Dr.Handa's opening remarks were followed by greetings from other leaders, including WFDD Executive Director Katherine Marshall, KAICIID Secretary General Faisal bin Abdulrahman bin Muaammar and Cole Durham, founding director of the International Cener for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University and chairman of the G20 Interfaith Forum.
(source: THE JAPAN TIMES, July9, 2019）
(source: THE JAPAN TIMES, July9, 2019）
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