Posted on 11/09/2021 5:25:28 PM PST by marshmallow
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The bloody attacks on places of worship that host communities of faith gathered in prayer or while taking part in ritual acts, represent the "summit" of justified atrocities and violence by bringing up "religious" issues. Faced with the continuing of these phenomena, it is necessary to encourage the creation of an interreligious and inter-cultural "global network", which works to protect the sites of worship and all the believers who frequent them, as a contribution to the development of a "common human civilization" nurtured by the recognition and sharing of "common human values". This is the urgency relaunched by the International Appeal for the protection of the Holy Places from all the violence and abuses that affect the various praying and worshipping communities.
The initiative is promoted by Jordanian Prince Hassan Bin Talal (pictured with Pope Francis), who chairs the Arab Thought Forum and also the Board of the Royal Institute for Religious Studies. More than 40 Muslim and Christian supporters joined the appeal, including senior members of the Middle Eastern community and representatives of academic, theological and cultural institutions of various countries.
The text of the appeal presents original contents, while moving within the horizon already outlined in the Document on human fraternity for world peace and common coexistence, signed on February 4, 2019 in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and the Sunni Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyeb, Grand Imam of al Azhar. In particular, the new appeal insists on the need to foster dialogue between the different confessional and cultural identities that values human reason and the sharing of common values. The attacks perpetrated against places of worship are linked to events that even in recent times have seen sites of cultural value, libraries and "other representative centers of Arab Islamic civilization" targeted, in analogy to.........
(Excerpt) Read more at fides.org ...
Odd, these attacks only seem to be from one particular group....over and over, and over, lather, rinse, repeat
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