Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for evangelization in the Vatican, said that “the antidote” for hostility against religion in an increasingly secularized world is the dialogue between believers.
According to the Vatican agency Fidesthis was one of the main claims of the Purpsed Filipino in his speech in the delivery of the Zayed Award to the Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates, an important Muslim country in the Middle East.
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After denouncing the tendency of secularized societies of living with “distrust or even hostility not only towards specific religious traditions, but towards the religious dimension itself”, the cardinal stressed that the Catholic Church supports the “value of promoting friendship and friendship and respect between men and women of different religious traditions. ”
The pro-prefect stressed that this becomes even more important because “on the one hand, the world has become, in a sense, ‘smaller’ than ever and, on the other, the phenomenon of migration has intensified contact between people and communities of various traditions, cultures and religions. ”
Cardinal Tagle reiterated the importance of interreligious dialogue, especially before a society in which “religion looks like something useless or even dangerous, it is often thought that coexistence is only possible if people relegate their religious affiliation to the sphere purely private or gather in ‘neutral’ spaces, devoid of any reference to the transcendent ”
After remembering that it is not good to renounce the convictions themselves, the purple pointed out that “the recognition of the fundamental right to religious freedom, in all its dimensions, is essential for world peace and common coexistence.”
This year the Zayed Award was given to World Central Kitchen, a humanitarian organization that provides food to communities affected by crisis and conflicts; to the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, for her work in the fight against climate change; and the young Ethiopian-American Heman Bekele, only 15, who has developed an economic soap to prevent and treat skin cancer in his early stages.
These awards are delivered six years old about the human fraternity for world peace and common coexistence, signed in Abu Dhabi on February 4, 2019, by Pope Francis and the great magnet of Al-Azhar.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.