An interreligious appeal for peace. To “stem hatred, safeguard coexistence, purify language”. The Italian Episcopal Conference, Ucei (Union of Jewish Community in Italy), Ucoii (Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy), Coreis (Italian Islamic religious community) and the Mosque of Rome, aimed at Italian institutions, but also to individual citizens and believers of all faiths, because, because, because the first signatories “peace is the responsibility of individuals and collective subjects” “It expresses the much that unites, put to the test from what is happening, but in the certainty that the dialogue must find the solutions to what our faiths humiliates and resist”.
The appeal expresses the pain for what is happening in the world and, even the positions can be different, everyone shares the goal of strengthening dialogue and silently silenced. In this document, therefore, “how much it divides, to strengthen what unites us, in the common effort to understand the pain and the reasons of the other, generating a renewed commitment to find right and lasting solutions for everyone”. In particular, then “the appeal is open to the” religions table “which has been located at the CEI headquarters for three years in order to seek an” Italian route of interreligious dialogue “”.
The appeal ends with the words of Psalm 34, of the letter to the Romans and of a song by the Koran. “It is far from evil and does good, seek and pursue peace,” says verse 15. “Rejoice with those who are in joy; You cry with those who are in crying “, reads instead in chapter 12 of Paolo’s letter, while in the book dear to Muslims it is written:” We have prescribed to the children of Israel that anyone who will kill a person is as if he had killed the whole humanity, and anyone who has given life to a person will be as if he had given life to whole humanity. Our envoes have come to them with the clear tests and yet many of them, albeit after this, have been integrating on Earth ».
Meanwhile, a flash mob for peace has involved believers and non -believers in front of the Pantheon. Animated by the young people of Sant’Egidio who arrived in Rome for their international conference “Global Friendship Peace Hope”, has also seen the presence of numerous Ukrainian boys and representatives from Africa, Latin America and Asia. Nil president of the community, Marco Impagliazzo asked himself: «What can a young man do in today’s world? What is your strength? There is an atmosphere of resignation and cynicism surrounding young people. A heavy climate, polluted by severe judgments, a climate that crushes dreams and hopes ». Young people then have to invest in “fraternity, gratuitousness and love, because the bond is not a constraint but a liberation that connects to the rest of the world”. Impagliazzo then recalled the words of Floribert Bwana Chui, the young man of the community of Sant’Egidio di Goma, in Congo, killed in 2007 for having opposed an attempt to corruption, and recently beatified: “Compared to violence, for oblivion, for the forgetfulness of others, there is always another way. That of hope, the foundation of any positive change in the world ».
