November 7, 2019

Geneva Peace Week “The role of religions in settling conflicts”

Religions have an important part in building a culture of encounter and peace based on mutual understanding in the search for the common good. For the Catholic Church, peacebuilding through active nonviolence is the natural and necessary complement to the Church’s its continuing efforts to limit the use of force by invoking moral norms. In many parts of the world, beginning with the Middle East, such an approach is much needed now to foster fully reconciled societies and to renew peaceful civil coexistence.
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