{"id":305536,"date":"2017-10-04T11:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-challenge-of-dialogue-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:35:28","slug":"the-challenge-of-dialogue-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-challenge-of-dialogue-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of Dialogue in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SD4\"SoyDi\u00e1logo <\/strong>(I\u2019m dialogue)<\/strong> is meant as a personal challenge in the face of the situation that has come about in Spain, the proposal to reject every form of violence and to live for the concrete promotion of a culture of dialogue. The challenge is both need and courageous. <\/strong> There have been many efforts in this direction. <\/strong>On the 26th of September, the Focoalre Movement <\/a>in Spain <\/a>had proposed a document and gathering of signatures with the intent of promoting opportunities for dialogue, listening and respect. It is an appeal to find peaceful solutions for harmonious coexistence in diversity, recognizing the human dignity of all people and institutions that represent them. The proposal, marked with the hastag #SoyDi\u00e1logo<\/strong><\/strong>,<\/strong> which is in full agreement with the recently relaunched invitation of the bishops to \u201cadvance the path of dialogue and mutual understanding,\u201d seems even more timely now, following the results of the referendum vote that opens great unknowns on the future of Catalonia, from Spain and from Europe. The promoters of the effort write: \u201cDialogue is a powerful tool that makes interest in others possible, entering into their reality, to live it, embrace and, inasmuch as possible, comprehend it. Among us, Focolare members all over Spain, there are people with different cultural and political identities.\u00a0 We\u2019re directly involved in building bridges, convinced that there is an element of truth in the vision and choices of the other. But we condsider diversity to be a positive challenge and enrichment.\u201d \u201cComments from signers on Twitter: <\/strong>\u201cA signature never decides, but it\u2019s better than crossing your arms and watching the river go by.\u201d \u201cWe are as we discuss, enriched by the gift of diversity.\u201d \u201cI believe in dialogue, which presupposes respect, transparency and acceptance that there is a bit of truth in the other tha I can totally embrace.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not a bad thing to think differently. It\u2019s the way you evolve. It\u2019s the opposite of uniformity and immobility.\u201d \"20171094-02\"<\/a> Some considerations from those who believe in dialogue. <\/strong> Girona: <\/strong>\u201cThese are strange times, a mix of sadness, helplessness and worry. At the same time it\u2019s clear to me what I should do. In any event I wonder what I can do, with my limited possibilities. I make an effort not to judge. Opportunities for listening with an open mind are never lacking.\u201d A young woman from Seville writes: <\/strong>\u201cWith a Catalan friend we try to keep the dialogue open. I take an interest in her family. When you get to know the other person\u2019s background, you can change a bit of your idea and love that person more, even though we have differing ideas.\u201d From Barcelona: <\/strong>\u201cThese events offer many possibilities for keeping the dialogue going with those who think like me, and also with those who don\u2019t think like me.\u201d \u201cUp until now I limited myself to praying and cancelling the chain of photos, jokes or doubtful news that circulate online and don\u2019t favour positive feelings,\u201d writes a woman from Toledo. <\/strong>\u201cThen I wondered to myself: what more can I do? I tried to make it known to the people I know in Catalonia that they can count on me to build dialogue. Perhaps that was obvious, but I felt like I had to come out and say it.\u201d Girona writes: <\/strong>\u201cIn my opinion when we\u2019re not able to see the bit of truth that is there in the other, we already demonize them. This gives us free rein to write or share whatever incendiary comment that enters our mind. We\u2019re immersed in all this, at times without realizing it, and that\u2019s what\u2019s worse. We forget that our challenge is more heroic and difficult than just making propaganda out of our ideas and disparaging those of others. The real challenge is to build bridges.\u201d From Seville: <\/strong>\u201cI have a lot of friends in Catalonia, brothers and sisters who have decided with me to work at building a new humanity. We share each other\u2019s worries and pain. For this reason, when we write to each other, they\u2019ve felt free to tell me: we hope that the next time, when we see each other again we\u2019ll be independent. And they in turn have listened to me when I answered: I wish for us all that the next time we see one another reason and good thinking will have won.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The situation becomes increasingly tense, following the referendum held in Catalonia, the invitation to dialogue expressed by the Focolare Movement in the #SoyDi\u00e1logo document seems quite timely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}