"An education that knows how to keep truth and freedom together" is "the best antidote for fundamentalism and violence." Cardinal Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice said this, speaking June 21 at the opening day of the two-day conference organized by the  Scientific Committee of the Oasis Foundation, held in Jounieh, Lebanon. The central theme of this year's meeting is "Education between Faith and Culture: Christian and Muslim Experiences in Dialogue. " In his address, the patriarch of Venice emphasized the need for an educational model that attempts to "teach the business of living", to "teach human person to be freely able to embrace the truth."   For his part, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, deliberated on the educational challenges posed to Christians and Muslims, who are called to sensitize legislators and teachers in proposing rules of conduct. According to the Cardinal, it requires: "respect for the person who seeks the truth, and towards the mystery of the human person", "the critical sense that allows you to discern between the true and the false", and finally "the appreciation and spread of the great cultural traditions open to the transcendent that express our aspiration towards freedom and truth. " Sheikh Radwan al-Sayyed, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Lebanon, analyzed the three currents of Islam -  Salafi, Sufi, and the Muslim Brotherhood - which are widely spread throughout Europe, thanks in large part to the media and social projects, and which are creating an even greater chasm from the non-Muslim world.   Jesuit Father Samir Khalil Samir, world-famous Islamologist who worked directly in the drafting of the Instrumentum Laboris for the up-coming Synod on the Middle East, is in agreement with this interpretation of current trends in the Old Continent. Father Samir Khalil Samir, "This is new but also dangerous. These three trends aren't looking to interpret modernity in their teaching. They give legal rules to respond to immediate problems, but do not offer a vision if the vision is different from the others. " Lebanese Shiite Sheikh Hani Fahs hinted at the failure of some types of religious education to do away with the excesses stemming from the fanaticism of Muslim and Christian students, but then praised initiatives like the Oasis Foundation.Sheikh Hani Fahs, "We are here we are in a workshop whose aim is to produce the antidote to insurgency, division, conflict, violence and terrorism. The more intense our work, the greater the positive impressions we leave." http://www.oasiscenter.eu/

"An education that knows how to keep truth and freedom together" is "the best antidote for fundamentalism and violence." Cardinal Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice said this, speaking June 21 at the...leggi tutto