CONTINUING TO MEET. MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES OF INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

Wael Farouq, Director of the Arab Cultural Institute (ACI), professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Fausto Taiten Guareschi, emeritus abbot of the Monastero Shōbōzan Fudenji, Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma; Emilia Guarnieri, former President of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples ETS Foundation; Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, Vice President of COREIS Comunità Religiosa Islamica Italiana and imam of the al-Wahid central mosque in Milan; Wakako Saito, professor of Italian Culture and Religion at Aichigakuin University in Nagoya. Songs and music curated by Marina Valmaggi  and Coro Internazionale San Nicola

Interreligious dialogue is born from the encounter between people who carry their own identity to its full extent, discovering a meaning for themselves and for the whole world. The friendship between Father Luigi Giussani and the Buddhist monk Shodo Habukawa, a leading figure in Shingon Buddhism, is an exemplary testimony of this. What does this testimony indicate for the encounter among different religions in an increasingly fragmented and conflictual world?