October 24 2022 16:30 | La Nuvola
FORUM 8 - RELIGIONS, DIALOGUE AND PEACE

Religions have been used in so many ages and even recently to wage war and make war with one another better, this has hollowed them out, made them caricatures. They used religious words for hatred and for the elimination of the other. This happens in precise places in the world, as well as in the hearts of so many people. But religions can be, when they enter into the depths of themselves, water to extinguish the fires of divisions and distortions that prevent us from seeing in others our brothers and sisters and fellow human beings. In a time of pushes for political, ethnic and social divisions, of the resurgence of aggressive nationalisms, religions can help to rediscover what unites rather than what divides: a new responsibility for peace.
Moderator
Vittorio Ianari
Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Relatori
Mohamed Abdelsalam Abdellatif
Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders, Egypt
Zaid Mohammed Bahr AL-Uloom
Director of the Al-Khoei Institute, Iraq
Shmuel Aharon Brodman
Rabbi, Germany
Indunil J. Kodithuwakku
Secretary, Dicastery for lnterreligious Dialogue, Holy See
Ryoko Nishioka
Advisor to the Patriarch of Tendai Buddhism, Japan
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Holy Land
Laurent Ulrich
Archbishop of Paris, France







