The international conference on interreligious dialogue held Wednesday 16 July in Madrid is good news in that it brought together the high representatives of the three Book religions – Islam, Christianity and Judaism – to jointly proclaim their will towards dialogue and mutual comprehension. The conference was the intitiave of King Abdallah II of Saudi Arabia, a country embodying the most severe Islamic doctrine, Wahhabism. This paradox explains itself by Abdallah’s will to change the kingdom’s image, tainted by the 2001 terrorist attacks of which the majority of culprits were Saudi. At the end of the Madrid Conference, participants called for the organisation of a special session of the United Nations General Assembly dedicated to interreligious dialogue. At a time when relations between religions are too often the pretext for tension and nearly violence, such an initiative deserves recognition.