Associations and witnesses, together to build a world of peace and justice. This is the aim of the conference Agenda for Peace 2025, the role of Europe and the challenges of the Jubilee of Hopea concrete response to the emergency of conflicts and wars that are dramatically linked with very serious global repercussions, risking a self-destructive drift that involves all of humanity. The event, characterized by a strong European spirit in the name of dialoguehuman rights and commitment to a democracy deeply rooted in the values of the common good and participation, is organized by the European Parliament in Italycoordinated by Fabio Di Stefanoresponsible for relations with the institutions and communication of the European Parliament in Italy, and by the journalist Piero Damossoauthor of the book Can the Church stop the war? (San Paolo Editions).
The meeting will be held in Rome on January 20th from 3.30 pm at Esperienza Europa – David Sassoli (piazza Venezia 6c)and will be opened by the Vice-President of the Council and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. Leaders of movements, associations and unions will be present: Community of Sant’Egidio, Community of Pope John XXIII, Catholic Action, Acli, Focolare Movement, Communion and Liberation, CISL, Coldiretti, Cooperativa Auxilium, Christian Workers Movement. With them ambassadors, journalists, religious people, and representatives of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and the Grand Mosque of Rome, in the awareness of how necessary it is to strengthen interreligious dialogue in a global context where conflicts are often fueled by nationalistic fundamentalism.
The artisans of peace, engaged in recent years in solidarity with refugees and in the culture of meeting on the fronts of all wars, are today called upon to take on a great responsibility and to the courage to promote and accompany urgent negotiations for a just and lasting peace, which is not afraid to seek the truth without exclusion or manipulation through propaganda and ideological operations.
In the European spirit of the founding fathers (De Gasperi, Adenauer, Schumann), the challenge ofAgenda for peace is to relaunch and implement a community method 2.0, which contributes, as Pope said Francis speaking in recent days of the artisans of peace, “to build truly peaceful societies, in which legitimate political, but also social and cultural, ethnic and religious differences constitute a wealth and not a source of hatred and division”.
The event will be broadcast on the YouTube channel of the European Parliament in Italy: youtube.com/@PE_Italia
