Holding the Preliminary Meetings of the International Conference of Imam Reza (A.S.) and the Interfaith Dialogue in Three Countries of the World.

Hujjat al-Islam wa al-Muslimin Seyyed Hamid Alawi Aziz said, “Before the International Conference of Imam Reza (A.S.) and the Interfaith Dialogue in Mashhad the preliminary meetings will be held, aiming at the religious scholars' acquaintance with each other and conducting seminar sessions in India, Russia and Lebanon.”
“The meeting that will be held in collaboration with the Universities of Hamdard, the national community of Islamiyah, Aligarh, Kashmir, Jawaharalal Nehru and the Al-Mustafa International University based in New Delhi at the University of Hamdard in India, Indian religions are being studied” he said, stating that the first meeting will be held in India. 
He introduced Russia as the second host of the preliminary meetings and added, “At this meeting, which is organized in April 2018 at the University and the Museum of the Religions of St. Petersburg, religious scholars will talk about Christianity.”
According to the executive secretary of the conference, the third preliminary meeting of the conference will also be held next summer on Judaism in Lebanon and Beirut City.
He announced December 2018 as the date of the conference and stated, “The conference will be hosted by Astan Quds Razavi through inviting the scholars of other religions both inside and abroad in Mashhad”
Hujjat al-Islam wa al-Muslimin Alawi Aziz, at the end recounted the position of dialogue in religions, the role of religious doctrines in the peaceful coexistence of followers of religions, the covenant and the promise in religions and the idealistic society from religions’ standpoint among important topics of the conference.