{"id":39424,"date":"2019-05-28T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uae-ambassador-to-rwanda-holds-ramadhan-banquet\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:04:19","slug":"uae-ambassador-to-rwanda-holds-ramadhan-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uae-ambassador-to-rwanda-holds-ramadhan-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Ambassador to Rwanda holds Ramadhan Banquet for Muslim and Christian Clerics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eftar Dinner was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs &#038; International Cooperation Hon. Dr. Richard Sezibera, the Vice Mufti of the Rwanda Muslim Community Sheikh Saleh Nshimiyimana, His Grace Antoine Kambanda, Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kigali, Bishop Samuel Kayinamura Head of the Protestant Council of Rwanda, Members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Republic of Rwanda and media institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Inter-Faith Eftar organized by the Embassy comes within the framework of the 2019 UAE Declaration of &#8220;Year of Tolerance&#8221; in order to consolidate the values of mutual understanding between peoples of different cultures and religions\u201d. Ambassador Al-Qahtani said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador stressed that tolerance, coexistence and mutual respect are important values that the United Arab Emirates believes in and seeks to contribute to spreading in the region and the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador pointed out that this invitation was aimed at bringing Islamic clerics and their brothers, representatives and church leaders, as well as government officials and diplomats, around an Eftar table to familiarize themselves with the customs of Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. Contributing to the promotion of understanding and highlight the tolerance of Islam and its moderation, which the UAE is working to root.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29403 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5659.jpg\" alt=\"The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the Republic of Rwanda held a Ramadan Inter-Faith Eftar Banquet for Muslim and Christian Clerics\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29404 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5777.jpg\" alt=\"The Ramadan Inter-Faith Eftar Banquet took place at the Ambassador&#039;s Residence\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29405 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5780.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29406 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5793.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29439 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5850_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29437 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5834.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Al-Qahtani personally invited the Minister of Foreign Affairs &amp; International Cooperation Hon. Dr. Richard Sezibera to the banquet\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29440 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5861.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29441 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5875.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29444 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a6007.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Foreign Affairs &amp; International Cooperation Hon. Dr. Richard Sezibera speaking at the event\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29445 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a6036.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29446 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a6063.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29442 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5936.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Al-Qahtani holding a speech for his guests\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29449 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5941.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Samuel Kayinamura, the Head of the Protestant Council of Rwanda, addressing himself to attendants\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29447 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a6072.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29436 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1s4a5817.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the Republic of Rwanda, H.E Hazza Al-Qahtani, held a Ramadan Inter-Faith Eftar Banquet this Monday, May 27th, 2019 at his Residence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39424"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39424"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}