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Cut <strong>the</strong> funding power of <strong>the</strong> morality police.<br />

Convened a global interfaith summit in 2008 and subsequently issued <strong>the</strong> Madrid<br />

Declaration, which calls for tolerance between religions and a culture of peace.<br />

<strong>The</strong> first Saudi monarch in 51 years to address <strong>the</strong> UN General Assembly and <strong>the</strong> first<br />

reigning Saudi monarch to have met with a pope, Pope Benedict XVI in November<br />

2007.<br />

Donated $50 million in cash and $10 million-worth of relief materials for <strong>the</strong><br />

2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China and pledged a $1 billion donation towards <strong>the</strong><br />

reconstruction of <strong>the</strong> Palestinian coastal territory during <strong>the</strong> Israeli war on Gaza.<br />

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