Items of Interest March 12, 2012 Issue

Saudi prince promotes agenda for peace and religious understanding

Marshall Ingwerson

Written for the Sentinel

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal

Former President Jimmy Carter and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation

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The Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation/Cheryl Richards
Saudi Arabia is not exactly famous for religious tolerance. Saudi outreach, in fact, often takes the form of promoting its radically conservative Wahhabi sect that has little tolerance even for other traditions of Islam.

Former President Jimmy Carter and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation

But a prominent member of the Saudi royal family is putting his considerable fortune behind an effort to build bridges between the Muslim and Christian worlds.

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