On May 16 and 17, the FICRT Foundation will hold the first edition of the Forum ‘From the Islam-Christian Dialogue to the Abrahamic Family’, in collaboration with the University Institute of Religious Sciences of the Complutense University and the Unesco Chair of Conflict Resolution of the University of Cordoba. The event will take place at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba (C/ Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9), starting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, May 16.
This Forum, now initiated by the FICRT Foundation and to be continued annually, aims to extend interreligious dialogue beyond Islam and Christianity, encompassing all the religions of the so-called “Islamic world”. Abrahamic Familythat is, those who venerate the figure of Abraham as father and prophet.
The president of the FICRT Foundation, Mr. Jumaa AlKaabiwill inaugurate this first edition of the Cordoba Forum, which aims to take up the baton and broaden the scope of the first two Islamo-Christian meetings held in the same city in 1974 and 1979, including among the speakers representatives of other religious denominations.
The promotion of dialogue and understanding among religions, which is one of the fundamental principles of the FICRT Foundation, was promoted at the time by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), which recognized religious plurality as a person’s right to make a sincere choice of the path to follow in order to find the truth.
This movement has experienced an important impulse during the pontificate of the Pope Francis and crystallized with the pontiff’s historic visit to Abu Dhabi, where he met with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeband together they signed the Document on Human Fraternity, for World Peace and Common Coexistence’.on February 4, 2019.
A date that the General Assembly of the United Nations has decided to commemorate annually, declaring February 4 as the International Day of Human Fraternity.
In this context, this First Cordoba Forum, organized by the FICRT Foundation, will feature, over the course of May 16 and 17, the following speakers four panelsdistributed over the two days, in which the following will take part 11 prestigious speakersrepresenting various states, universities, research centers and religious denominations.
From the hand of these experts, the attendees will be able to know first hand how the interreligious dialogue is being approached, until reaching conclusions that will be reflected in the Manifesto of Cordoba ‘The Abrahamic Family and Human Fraternity’, which will be presented during the last session.
