Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will tonight give the inaugaral Zaki Badawi Memorial Lecture at Lambeth Palace. The lecture is entitled 'Islam, Christianity and Pluralism', and will focus on the different attitudes between the two faiths regarding both pluralism as a religious thesis, and pluralism as a social and political reality.

Archbishop Williams will also receive a lifetime achievement award tonight from the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, in recognition of his distinguished contributions to better understanding between Faiths, and to a wider recognition of the place of faith in present day Western culture.

Messages of goodwill from HRH the Prince of Wales, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, the Mufti of Egypt and others, will be read out at the lecture.

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It is regretted that no text of the address will be immediately available; a transcript will be posted on the web site as soon as possible.

Item from: Lambeth Palace and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists