Pope Francis has told an interreligious meeting in Paris that the multi-faith group must be open to guidance “by the divine inspiration present in every faith” in order to establish peace in the world.
In an address to the 38th “International Prayer Meeting for Peace” organized by the ecumenism-driven Sant’Egidio Community, Pope Francis urged the more than 150 gathered representatives of “Christian Communities and of the world’s great religions, as well as civil authorities” to “nurture fraternity between peoples in our time.”
The gathering, which took place from September 22-24, included speakers such as Justin Welby, the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the rector of Paris’ grand mosque, Haïm Korsia, the chief rabbi of France, and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Noting that the meeting finds its origin in Pope John Paul II’s 1986 Meeting for Peace in Assisi and thanking the Sant’Egidio Community “for the passion and creativity with which it continues to keep the spirit of Assisi alive,” Pope Francis expressed his hope that, while holding differing “religious beliefs,” including Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, and Judaism, the group had “experienced the power and beauty of universal fraternity.”
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