Millennium World Peace Summit Opens at U.N.

The Millennium World Peace Summit Monday kicked off at the U.N. headquarters in New York, attracting more than 1,000 religious leaders worldwide, including seven top gurus of China's five major faith disciplines.

The religious leaders are gathering here to forge partnerships of peace with the United Nations and with each other.

All the world's major religions and faiths are represented at the event, "the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders," the organizers said.

The four-day summit is expected to focus on four broad sets of issues: conflict transformation, elimination of poverty, forgiveness and reconciliation, and preservation and restoration of the environment.

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