Ambon to host

Ambon to host
religious meeting

AMBON, Maluku: Ambon is scheduled to host the Asian Religious
Youth Assembly meeting between July 4 and July 6 of this year.

The Ambon event represents a preliminary meeting ahead of the
World Conference and Peace meeting to be held in Kyoto, Japan, in
August next year.

According to the chairman of Interreligious Faith for Humanity
in Maluku, Rev. Jacky Manuputty, Ambon had been selected after
Bali and Yogyakarta. "When we asked for the meeting to be held in
Maluku, it was immediately agreed to. The meeting will be
attended by delegations from 22 Asian countries," Jacky said.

The meeting is intended to identify the unique spiritual,
moral and social values of religious youth to help prevent
violence and improve security in Asia.

The Indonesian participants, he said, would hail from Nanggroe
Aceh Darussalam, Papua, the Central Sulawesi town of Poso, and
Maluku. The participants would also visit places of worship in
Ambon.

"The participants will meet with young people from Ambon and
will organize a work camp in Tulehu village, Salahutu district,"
he said. -- JP