{"id":328754,"date":"2016-11-26T04:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/second-muslim-focolare-conference\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:47","slug":"second-muslim-focolare-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/second-muslim-focolare-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Muslim Focolare Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1<\/a>The event was attended by 90 <\/strong>Muslims and Christians<\/a> from Jordan, Syria, Libya, Greece, Tunisia, France, Italy, Switzerland, Burkina Faso, Canada and Algeria.<\/strong> Four topics were discussed: suffering in light of God; the divine inspiration on unity in Chiara Lubich<\/a>; the challenges and problems for the contemporary Muslim; being builders of universal brotherhood. The most repeated word at the conference was \u201ctogether\u201d which highlighted the experience that has been maturing for years in the heart of the Focolare Movement: Christians and Muslims living the ideal of unity together, according to the charism given by God to Chiara Lubich fully accepting their individual identities and differences. Chiara\u2019s deep mystical experience from the summer of 1949 was introduced by <\/strong>J\u00e9sus Mor\u00e1n<\/a> and welcomed by the participants in an atmosphere of deep fraternity: \u201cChiara takes us into the God of Oneness, beyond the differences of single religions,\u201d said Jalleh who is a Sciite from Iran. Someone else remarked: \u201cChiara uses images that are understandable when talking about the Trinity.\u201d Rita Moussallem and Roberto Catalano<\/strong>, who work for the Movement\u2019s interreligious dialogue, presented the Focolare\u2019s experience with different religions around the world: \u201cYou could say that God manifested himself and gave us all a bit of his light,\u201d said one participant. \u00a0<\/em> After an immersion in the unity that is born from the Christian context, the focus shifted to Islam.<\/strong> The Algerian-Tunisian scholar Adnane Mokrani<\/strong>, who teaches as the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamist Studies at Rome (PISAI), talked about the crisis that Islam is going through today. She invited the audience not to allow itself to be taken in by the different conspiracy theories, not to blame others, but to return to the discussion table, without being discouraged: because \u201cthe majority of the people want peace, perhaps an inactive majority \u2026 But it\u2019s up to us,\u201d she emphasized, \u201can active minority to do all that we can to arouse that majority. It\u2019s our task.\u201d \"2She and Adnane Mokrani<\/strong> answered several spontaneous questions from the audience. Scholar of Comparative Religions at the University of Amman, Jordan, Amer Hafi<\/strong> said: \u201cGod is great[er] <\/em>means that he is greater than our fears, than our problems and misfortunes: God is the key of our hope and of our life. But unfortunately this invocation has become a death signal.\u201d The presence of Emeritus Archbishop Henri Teissier<\/strong> with his in-depth knowledge of Islam was deeply appreciate, along with Bishop of Orano, Jean Paul Vesco<\/strong>. He explained: \u201cthe friendship founded on spiritual communion is the apex of dialogue among the religions and their differences.\u201d The young Algerian Muslims from the Focolare Movement provided music and song. The visit to the mausoleum of mystic Sidi Boumedi\u00e8ne, which was presented by Algerian scholar Dr Sari-Ali Hikmet<\/strong>, immersed the conference members in the spirituality, art and culture of Islam. This was followed by a visit to the El Mechouar Museum, a palace from the Zianide Dynasty, and a visit to the Great Mosque and to the modern Andalusi Centre of Studies. Before leaving Tlemcen, Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n commented on the experience<\/strong>: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t only getting along, but of being one, sharing the same experience of God, of sharing what we have deepest inside of us.\u201d Jean-Louis Marechal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 28-20, 2016. Second Muslim Focolare Conference is held at the Dar es Salam Mariapolis Centre in Tlemcen in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Focolare in Algeria.<\/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-328754","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\/328754","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=328754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}