IRO head: Religious leaders must not make others uncomfortable

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Re­li­gious lead­ers must not cre­ate an at­mos­phere of dis­com­fort by dis­cour­ag­ing their fol­low­ers from show­ing cour­tesy and re­spect to peo­ple of oth­er faiths, says In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­gan­i­sa­tion (IRO) pres­i­dent Dr El­lis Har­ri­son Bur­ris.

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Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Bur­ris, who is of the Ba­ha’i Faith, said re­li­gious or­gan­i­sa­tions must be mind­ful of the lan­guage they use, par­tic­u­lar­ly in a mul­ti-re­li­gious so­ci­ety such as Trinidad and To­ba­go, where peo­ple of dif­fer­ent faiths live and work along­side one an­oth­er.