Source: SIR
Translated by Baghdadhope
"Christians in the Middle East among future, tradition and Islam". This is the title of the conference organised for tomorrow, February 20, in Rome by the Community of Sant'Egidio (9.30, piazza S. Egidio 3a). After the introduction of the founder, Andrea Riccardi, Régis Debray, writer and philosopher, honorary president of the European Institute for Religious Sciences, will speak about "The meaning of a minority". Lebanon Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tareq Mitri, will speak about the meaning of being Christians in Lebanon. At 11.30, it will be the turn of Mgr. Jean Benjamin Sleiman, Latin Archbishop of Baghdad, followed by the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Mgr. Antoine Audo, who will illustrate the situation of Christians in Syria. In the afternoon (15.30), the speakers will be Samir Morcos, of Al Mesry Foundation for Citizenship and Dialogue in Cairo, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, custodian of the Holy Land (Christians of the Holy Land) and Bernard Sabella, of the University of Bethlehem. At 17.30, after the greeting by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches, there will be a discussion with Lucio Caracciolo, editor of Limes, Giuliano Ferrara, director of Il Foglio, the French Foreign Minister, Jacques Huntzinger, and the Lebanese foreign minister.
