Politicians attending meeting in Muskoka will get push to aid the poor, environment
When the world’s most powerful government leaders gather in cottage country next year to discuss how to get the global economy back on track, religious leaders from around the world will be on hand to push them to remember the poor and the environment.
“How can the G8 ignore it if all these voices are speaking together,” asks Rev. Karen Hamilton, general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches.
The Council of Churches is organizing what promises to be the biggest ever such gathering of religious leaders from around the world in a counter-conference to coincide with the annual G8 political leaders’ conference planned for the Deerhurst Resort near Huntsville.
Hamilton says there will be top representatives from all the world’s major faiths at the counter-conference, including South Africa’s Desmond Tutu and the Aga Khan. She has also been told the Dalai Lama hopes to attend, which she says will give the meeting added clout with the political leaders.
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