Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.