Pope Francis to American interreligious symposium:
world is watching
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis
received the participants in an international interreligious congress on
Thursday in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace. Organized by the Instituto
del Diálogo Interreligioso – the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue
of Argentina, in partnership with the Organization for American States and with
the collaboration of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, the
symposium opened Wednesday, September 7th, at the Pontifical
Augustinianum Institute to explore the theme: América en diálogo –
Nuestra casa común – “America in Dialogue: our common home”.
The two-day gathering is the
first of its kind for the organizations involved, and its working sessions
focused on the Holy Father’s encyclical letter, Laudato si’.
In remarks prepared for the
occasion, Pope Francis said, “The world looks constantly to us, believers, to
see what our attitude is towards the common house and to human rights.” The
Holy Father went on to say, “The world also asks us to cooperate among
ourselves and with men and women of good will who profess no religion, in order
to give effective answers to the many scourges of our world,” including the
scourges of war and hunger, abject poverty, ecological crises, violence, corruption
and moral degradation, the crisis of the family, the economy, “and above all,”
he said “the lack of hope.”
An explanatory note from the
organizers addressed to Pope Francis and released to the press explains that
the OAS and the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue (IDI) of Buenos Aires
under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, have
brought together participants belonging and different religious traditions from
various countries to discuss the creation of an Institute of Dialogue that will
be continental in scope.
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