WORLD FORUM DEDICATED TO “THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS GUIDES IN THE PREVENTION OF INSTIGATION OF ATROCIOUS CRIMES"

Fez | 23 April 2015
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Onu and Kaiciid makes gather together in Marocco religious leaders from all over the world.

On the 23 and 24 of April took place the world forum on the role of religious leaders in the prevention of mass crimes organized by ONU office for the Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility of Protection, in collaboration with Wien KAICIID Centre, Interministerial for human rights of Marocco, Majoub El Haiba and Moroccan League of Oulema.
The meeting of Fez gave life to a path of which the following steps will be five regional seminars and a final one which will be global, during which an Action Plan will be adopted. Thirty exponents of the most important religions (Catholic, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism) joined, along with international experts of human rights, interreligious dialogue and prevention of conflict.
The Under Secretary General Adama Dieng, Ban Ki –Moon Special Counselor for the prevention of genocide, thanked Moroccan authorities and in particular way King Mohammed IV for having accepted to organize the Forum in Fez, city of strong spiritual and religious connotation. More than 30 religious guides from different countries and religion, gathered together for two days in Morocco in the city of Fez in occasion of the first world forum sponsored by United Nations (Office for the Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility of Protection), by interreligious platform Kaiciid, wanted by the dead Saudi King Abdullah and which takes place in Morocco, and by Mohammedia, the League of Muslim scholars of Morocco. The meeting, as the press release states, fits in a path started by initiative of ONU High Commission for Human Rights after the meetings of Rabat and Geneve and the further involvement of Kaiicid, in the hope that “interreligious dialogue became an essential way for the prevention of possible escalations due to religious abuse and tensions in the community”.
The meeting was the first of a series of forum which will be held later in different countries, historical city of Islamic wisdom, headquarters of one of the first universities of the world and birth country of important saints and wise men.
“Some religious authorities joined to Fez Forum linked criminal atrocities to the problems due to lack of freedom and equal dignity of religious pluralism, and other problems linked to social emargination, poverty and lack of knowledge”, affirmed the vice president of Italian Coreis, the Imam Yahya Pallavicini, who joined to different sessions of Forum.
"Even though I understand these issues – he declared- these are not balanced to the violent reaction who some provoke through slaughters justified as “give justice” to the honour lost by a religion. On the contrary- declared the imam- these criminals recruit in the West and in the East people, letting them believe that revolution is the definitive solution to the society’s problems.
Such a instigation strategy arises by lost of authority of authentic leaders of and scarce awareness of traditional heritage of humanity which all the religions testify.” “In order to stop this contempt of religion and all the principles of sacredness of life- kept on talking Pallavicini –is to safeguard the identity and authority of religious guides against false guide without spiritual and theological authority and moreover to sponsor a coordination between Institutions and wise men of different religions in order to calibrate safeguard strategies and educate to Peace”.
The moderator of the meeting was Adama Dieng, special advisor of ONU for the Safeguard of Genocide and Faisal bin Mu'ammar, Kaiciid general secretary.
Joined the meeting:

For the Induism, Swami Agnivesh from India
For the Judaism, Rav David Rosen from Jerusalem
For the Buddhism, Sam Art Oeun from Cambodia
For Greek Ortodox Church, Metropolita Emanuel Adamakis
For Catholic Church Cardinal John Onaiyakan from Nigeria e Mons. Miguel Ayuso from Vatican
For Protestant Church James Wuye from Nigeria
For Sunni Islam Ahmad Al-Abbadi, general secretary of Mohammedia, the league of wise Muslim men from Morocco
For Schiite Islam, Maythan Al Salman from Bahrain
A delegation from Fondazione Mediterraneo joined the event.

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HIGH PROFIL EVENT ABOUT RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND RECONCILIATION AT UNITED NATIONS

New York, | 21 April 2015
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The high profil event about religious tolerance and reconciliation took place in the UN Building in NYC. The meeting was sponsored by the President of General Assembly Sam Kutesa and the General Secretary, Ban Ki-moon, Nassir Abdelaziz Al-Nasser, High Exponent of Alliance of Civilization (UNAoC).

Joined to the event, which lasted two days, high profile exponents from Islam, Christian, Protestant and Orthodox churches and Judaism, Sikh, Hinduism and Buddhism. Joined to the event also exponents from Panama, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Mali.
In total, 55 members, included Italy, joined to the debate. The opening day, dedicated to the debate between member States, faced the problem of strategy focused on the contrast to violence. In the opening of the meeting, held in the Hall of General Assembly, the PGA Sam Kutesa, talked about the last international events, characterized by crimes due to religious reasons. For Kutesa, during the year dedicated to the Agenda for Sustainable Development, the international community must focuses on the socio- economical causes of the phenomenon in order to prevent a further growth.

Ban Ki Moon affirmed that Boko Haram, Daesh, Al-Shaabab are exponents of a new generation of terrorists who uses in a media way the errors made by the Governs in the realisation of non inclusive politics.

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TRAGEDY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: THE CALL OF THE FONDAZIONE

Napoli | 19 April 2015
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The foreseen tragedy happened in the Mediterranean, which caused the death of more than 700 people who are going to be added to an already long list, has been the topic faced by an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Fondazione Mediterraneo, which is engaged for 25 years in actions of solidarity and peace and which always focused the attention on the migrants problems and the need of a more concrete involvement by international organs.
This action was already suggested in Lampedusa in 2013, with a promise to Francis Pope: give back dignity to all the people who risk their lives searching for freedom and peace.
The “Monument with the urn of Unknown Migrant”, installed in Naples , is a sign of awareness toward these topics.
The members of the Fondazione made an appeal to President Renzi and European leaders.
The text of the appeal is:
“The bodies without life floating in the sea before our eyes must upset our consciences. These 700 people dead today (the more important tragedy for number of people dead) are going to be added to the thousand of migrants missed in the last years, to the millions of people transferred or exiled in search of dignity and peace: "urbancide" and "memorycide" are perpetrated in so many villages; many lives have been lost forever.
Human sufference mustn’t be replied by words as “I don’t care”: the globalization of indifference, the deny of solidarity, the euthanasia of hope, the dead of brotherhood shouldn’t be part of our culture, because these things kill more than the massacres. The international community should take awareness of the existence of a new nation: that one of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers.
A state without territory, without government, rules, rather a state made by people who need to have a safeguard dignity. Such dignity has been trampled on, annulled, humiliated by wars and desperation.
The protagonists of this Calvary so often don’t have name: there are so many Ahmed, Najlaa, Sumaya, Omar, Mohammed, Abdullah, Fatima and more and more, coming from different countries and trying to run away from wars, attacks, injustices, hunger, epidemics, human miseries…
Brutality and barbarism shouldn’t be fed by indifference, idleness and negligence.
Let’s throw once again a bottle in our sea, with a common appeal addressed to the remains of our human conscience and we are addressing to You, Leaders of the Europe and the World, a warm appeal: YOU MUST ACT, even if you have not to take in account “Bureaucracy”, in order to set up a strong and clear action which could aiming at

1. The organization of an European meeting including also Onu in order to find solutions to stop the death who transformed Our Sea in a cemetery, also through an European migration law based upon rights and duties and upon the number of migrants in Europe and not only in Italy
2. The creation of reception centres in transit territories
3. The resolution of Libyan situation with a program of country stabilization
4. The promotion of bilateral agreements between concerned countries

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COMMON RESPONSIBILITY FOR MIGRANTS, FAMILY, WORK, ENVIRONMENT: IN SYNTESIS THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC MATTARELLA TO FRANCIS POPE

Città del Vaticano | 18 April 2015
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The meeting between the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and Francis Pope, held in the morning of Saturday 18 April, lasted three hours. The new head of the Republic, elected two months ago, met also the cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of the State.

During the meeting, the warm relationship between Holy See and Italy and as a proof of this mutual collaboration can be seen also the ratification of the Convention of Revenue Service. They talked also about other issues as family, instruction, job and especially, migrations. The cooperation of Catholic Church aimed at helping some disadvantageous situations characterizing some fringes of society. And, attention was focused also to the international framework, and the escalation of violence in Oriental Mediterranean area and North-Africa. The two participants affirmed their will to keep on working together both at local and international level, especially for what concerns the promotion and safeguard of religious freedom and dignity of human person.

In the speech given at the presence of exponents of presidential ministry, Francis Pope called attention to «the shared responsibility for the spiritual and material needs of community which everyone of us must serve with dedication and humility». Among the other topics on which the Pope called attention were the family «essential fortress of values and solidarity», the «lack of work», which «for the youth becomes a scream of sorrow», the need of safeguard the environment and the migration «of who, risking their lives, are asking for a shelter. It is clear that the proportion of the phenomenon need a deepest involvement both of Europe and international institutions».

On the other hand, the president Mattarella highlighted the «very special relationship between Holy See and Italy». A relationship, he continued «which dunks its roots in history and territorial proximity» e «goes through respectful relationship », becoming strong through «— he concluded —pope ruleship addressed to global situation and nonetheless, addresses directly to the Italian social, economical and politic reality».

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