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Confronti Programs
Flowers of Peace
Bringing Israeli, Italian, and Palestinian children together in Italy to build peace for the future.
Seeds of Peace
Bringing pairs of Israeli/Palestinian peace educators to travel throughout Italy holding meetings on Middle East issues.
International Travel-Study Seminars
to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the Balkans, Turkey, Russia, the USA, Ireland, and other areas.
The Italy of Religions
Tour of the worship places of the various religions traditions present in Rome and other Italian cities.
Ecumenical and Interfaith Forums
Dialogue on current issues.
Conventions, Seminars and Refresher Courses
on the topics of religious pluralism, multicultural society, conflict mediation and peace education.
Editorials
Jubilee, Closed for War
The Editorial Staff
There has been a lot of talk about the war in Yugoslavia, but the war must also produce discussion about the Jubilee of 2000 wanted by Pope Wojtyla. If, in the 1800’s, warlike events that involved Rome pushed the Popes not to convene the Jubilee, even more so now, it should be suspended. Shouldn’t the Pope be asking the people to forget coming to Rome, but to make peace where they are, for example in Yugoslavia, where people die because of war and violence?
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Articles
Only Familiarity Can Defeat Mistrust
Michael Lerner
Engaged in the construction of a network that unites persons who want to have an alternative voice to the religious right (not only Catholic, but also Protestant, Jewish and Muslim), American Rabbi Lerner points the way with a dialogue based on understanding the other and their traditions.
We interviewed Rabbi Michael Lerner on the topic of interfaith dialogue, and on other issues like the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, peace-making, and the new Ratzinger pontificate. Rabbi Lerner is the founder and director of the bimonthly magazine Tikkun, which deals with politics, culture and society; and of the Tikkun Community of Berkeley (California), an interconfessional group, also open to secular people, commited to the topics of peace, nonviolence, and safeguarding the environment.
A RELATIVISTIC APPROACH? UP TO A POINT...
Adriano Prosperi
How did the Symposium go, and what were its “findings”?
The meeting proceeded just like an ordinary academic conference, on the basis of specific competencies and freedom of debate. The Inquisition as an institution was examined in the various phases of its medieval origins and its activities in various contexts, ranging from the Netherlands to Goa (India), from anti-protestant action to witch-trials and censorship of books. Its history, its rules, its mechanisms… As for the Inquisition’s victims, their overall number was debated and some figures drawn from the surviving trial documents were proposed. For instance, a scholar such as Gustav Henningsen (Copenhagen), who can certainly not be suspected of any confessional bias, showed that in terms of percentages of women placed on trial, more witches were put to death in Sweden and Poland than in France or Italy. Others maintained that it is hard to establish any reliable figures since the majority of the trial records have been destroyed, and in many cases, due to the lengthiness of the procedures, the persons accused died in prison.
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