{"id":98523,"date":"2019-05-02T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1905.az\/?p=98523"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:12:00","slug":"baku-forum-to-push-back-against-rise-of-hate-with-strong-call-for-cultural-and-religious-tolerance-says-un-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/baku-forum-to-push-back-against-rise-of-hate-with-strong-call-for-cultural-and-religious-tolerance-says-un-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku forum to push back against \u2018rise of hate\u2019 with strong call for cultural and religious tolerance, says UN official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in Baku, Azerbaijan, ahead of the UN-backed Forum, Mr. Moratinos told<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>UN News<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>about his \u201cemotional visit\u201d to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, where he paid his respects to victims of the suicide bombings that took place on Easter Sunday which killed more than 250 people at churches and hotels across several cities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/15567822783499012298_1000x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/15567822783499012298_1000x669.jpg 500w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/15567822783499012298_1000x669-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/15567822783499012298_1000x669-400x288.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSri Lanka has been an open country with different religions and cultures, and suddenly there was this massacre\u201d, he said, adding that it had dealt a \u201ctremendous blow to a country that is trying to live together in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While social intolerance is not new, Mr. Moratinos was concerned about what he called \u201cthe return of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate is the word that mobilizes certain communities to destroy\u201d, he said, adding: \u201cIt drives people past the point of not being able to live together to the direction of exterminating their opponents and that is very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Forum is important to send a strong message to the international community that it is possible to live together, that we can respect each other and that we have to better understand different cultures and religions,\u201d he told<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>UN News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/05\/1037711?fbclid=IwAR1oUQdDrOUdaVu9MX5iAUMGJn35IA1pF-VKrNjyvTaZPdjVXIgq67A6L28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.un.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in Baku, Azerbaijan, ahead of the UN-backed Forum, Mr. Moratinos told\u00a0UN News\u00a0about his \u201cemotional visit\u201d to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, where he paid his respects to victims of the suicide bombings that took place on Easter Sunday which killed more than 250 people at churches and hotels across several cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":98513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actual-news-2"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/15567822783499012298_1000x669.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}