{"id":327360,"date":"2015-06-12T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/eu-brussels-coexistence-and-acceptance-of-diversities\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:00:41","slug":"eu-brussels-coexistence-and-acceptance-of-diversities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/eu-brussels-coexistence-and-acceptance-of-diversities\/","title":{"rendered":"EU, Brussels: \u201cCoexistence and acceptance of diversities\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"European_Commission_Religions\"The meeting with the religious leaders<\/strong> will take place on 16 June <\/strong>at the Berlaymont Building in Brussels, seat of the European Commission. The top-level operational meeting is regularly held among the organisations of the European Union and churches, religions, philosophical associations and non-religious organizations, as provided by Art.17 of the Treaty of Lisbon. The results of the debate with the religious leaders will contribute to preparations for the European Union\u2019s first Annual Convention on Fundamental Rights that will be held in Brussels on 1-2 October 2015 on the theme \u201cTolerance and respect: foresee and combat anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim phenomena in Europe.<\/em>\u201d The topic chosen for the debate, \u201cCoexistence and acceptance of diversities,\u201d underlines \u2013 in the words of Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission, that – \u201cin our heterogeneous European societies, dialogue is essential in creating a community in which each feels at home. Living together means being able to accept the differences even in the presence of profound divergences.<\/em>\u201d Among the 15 religious leaders invited, are the Catholic Church\u2019s representatives: Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and President of the Episcopates\u2019 Commission of the European Community (COMECE), and Maria Voce<\/a>, President of the Focolare Movement.<\/a>

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Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission<\/p><\/div> Other participants will be Rev. Christopher Hill,President of theConference of European Churches<\/em> (CEC), Metropolitan Emmanuel of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Archbishop Antje Jackel\u00e9n, Primate of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, Albert Guigui, Head Rabbi of Belgium,and Imam Khalid Hajji, Secretary General of the Conseil Europ\u00e9en des Oul\u00e9maMarocains<\/em>. Developing the community spirit through dialogue <\/strong>is one of the objectivesof the Commission which, within the framework of the \u201cEurope for the citizens\u201d 2014-2020 programme, has allocated 185.5 million euros to co-finance projects assigned to awareness campaigns such as tolerance and mutual respect, and to create greater intercultural and interreligious comprehension among the citizens. By accepting the invitation, the Focolare President, Maria Voce, underlined that the priority of the Movement she represents and in cooperation with other Movements, is to \u201cbuild bridges through respectful dialogue at various levels and contribute to the coexistence of peace and fraternity among people of different faiths and from the most varied social and ethnic groups.\u00bb Press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the European Commission\u2019s Headquarters, some religious leaders will gather to reflect on peaceful coexistence and the challenges it has to face. Also the Focolare President, Maria Voce will attend the meeting.<\/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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327360","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=327360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}