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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: "REDEFINING INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE IN TIME OF CRISIS: A MEDITERRANEAN PERSPECTIVE”
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08 September 2016
In order to emerge from the deep crisis in the Mediterranean, regional diplomacy must move quickly: we need a rethinking of intercultural and inter-religious dialogue in the region, new instruments and a new common identity. This, in summary, is the message launched during the seminar organised at the Farnesina by the Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in collaboration with the Italian Network for the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue (RIDE), a reference point for the Anna Lindh Foundation network (ALF) in Italy. Redefining intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean is the only way out of the situation in the region. We need to "build together a new common cultural identity", he said opening the works Pasquale Ferrara, ambassador of Italy designated in Algiers, reminding us how to do this we need to do it "involving all the actors of the region: civil society, non-governmental organizations, cultural operators of the southern shore", not only those of the northern shore. Therefore, not a Euro-centric vision but a Euro-Mediterranean vision. What must be clear "is that we are united by the same destiny and the challenges are the same for the whole Mediterranean: security, development, the fight against terrorism and extremist ideologies - not only Isis - mobility, young people,"said Anna Lindh Foundation President Elisabeth Guigou. To have a true intercultural dialogue we need to know each other and to do so,"it is necessary to use every means, every instrument", even technology. Extremism, Guigou recalled, flows along the net, "but the internet can be used to counteract the spread of this deviant ideology". "I hope - concluded the President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French National Assembly - that Europe will not only think about solving its problems, but that it will also look beyond its borders, that is to say the southern shore". The approach, the seminar's promoters repeat, must be multi-sectoral: economic, social and cultural, because the most affected by the crisis are young people, all too often driven by unemployment and social exclusion towards violence and extremism. And on the need to have a Mediterranean identity and a clear message, based on a cultural dialogue in order to be able to restart, insisted Enzo Amendola, undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, concluding the work. "Looking at past mistakes - he said - we must learn to find meeting points, but also to disagree. The mission, Amendola repeats, is that of "protecting our common cultural heritage", past and present, and defending it from that "totalitarian idea of wanting to erase it". Finally, we need "a positive planner for the Mediterranean, a partnership capable of defining a new geopolitical vision", in short,"a common future vision that focuses above all on young people in the area to solve the challenges facing the Mediterranean".
SYRIAN FAMILIES HOUSED IN SAN BIAGIO
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05 September 2016
The Italian Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation continues to support Syrian families.
Some of them are guests of the "House of prayer of San Biagio", where they have found love, welcome and - above all - peace: they come from Aleppo, today's "Sarajevo", where every day innocent victims die from the lack of justice and peace on the part of the rulers.
GREETING TO SISTER FILOMENA
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04 September 2016
After 28 years spent in the community of prayer of St. Biagio Sister Filomena leaves for the house of Colleferro.
Great feast in San Biagio with the participation of the Abbot of Subiaco Dom. Mauro Meacci.
PRESENTED EMOTIONAL VIDEOS ABOUT MADRE TERESA DI CALCUTTA
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04 September 2016
On the occasion of the canonization of Madre Teresa di Calcutta, the of “Fondazione Mediterraneo” prof. Michele President Capasso presented to the FMA Sisters of the Community of Prayer of St. Biagio the emotional videos of the Museum and, especially, those on Madre Teresa di Calcutta, from today St. Teresa di Calcutta.
MADRE TERESA IS A SAINT: AT THE MUSEUM OF PEACE THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY ABOUT HIS LIFE
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03 September 2016
On a wonderful sunny day, in front of a crowd of more than 100,000 people, MadreTeresa di Calcutta is proclaimed Saint by Pope Francis.
A moment of joy, a great feast.
The Museum of Peace has long housed finds and videos by Madre Teresa, through a unique emotional journey.
Great joy among the visitors who were able to connect with Piazza San Pietro through the great videowalls and, at the same time, retrace in the Museum the fundamental stages of this Little Sister, Great in Love and Mercy.
SISTER MARIA PIA GIUDICI COMMENT THE MUSEUM OF PEACE
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01 September 2016
Sister Maria Pia Giudici, protagonist of one of the emotional paths of the Museum, comments on the action of Michele Capasso and underlines the importance of being "Hunters of the positive" at a very difficult time in our history.
We must be optimistic and look at the world with Joy, in simplicity and sobriety ": this is the message of the religious.
WORLD CREATION DAY
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01 September 2016
Never before has the "World Day for Creation" taken on a special significance like this year.
Pope Francis recalled that the eighth work of mercy is respect for the environment: a warning for those who will take responsibility in the reconstruction of the earthquake zones.
THE INCON OF SISTER ANNE A GIFT FOR THE MUSEUM OF PEACE
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31 August 2016
At the end of the course in Iconography, Sister Anne - the Belgian teacher - donated to the Museum of Peace the icon she had created after the attack on Zaventem airport, with particular colors and a great inner emotion.
A language, that of icons, universal to the three great monotheistic faiths.
THE CHRIST OF AMATRICE WITHOUT A CROSS EMBRACES USS ALL WITH THE WARMTH OF LOVE
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30 August 2016
Today the journey from the prayer house of St. Blaise of Subiaco to Amatrice was long and short at the same time.
The Mayor's embrace with the Bishop, the Christ without the Cross suspended between the rubble and the highest offices of the State confused among people to share in crying pain and hope are the proof that all United can succeed. FOREVER.
I cried of sorrow for the destruction and victims and joy for this new momentum towards the Common Good.
Great appreciation for the solidarity between the different faiths and religious denominations: the best antidote to fight terrorism but that should be expressed not only in emergencies but daily.
Michele Capasso
MEETING WITH THE ABBOT MAURO MEACCI
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29 August 2016
The president Michele Capasso met the Abbot of Subiaco Dom. Mauro Meacci, with whom he discussed the main contemporary issues.
The Abbot expressed his thoughts on the House of Prayer of San Biagio and its role today.