“Diversity is a richness”. With this slogan, “Peoples’ Day” will be celebrated in Switzerland on 11 November. “In our country declares a message written for the occasion by ‘Migratio’ (Episcopal Commission for migrations) there are men and women, coming from other nations, with different cultures and often with different languages. The aim of Peoples’ Day is to invite us to reflect if and how natives and foreigners may open themselves to each other. Toleration and the desire to get to know each other better are necessary prerequisites for both sides“. Being part of the one people of God explains Msgr. Rudolph Schmid, vicar general of the diocese of Basel “does not mean uniformity. Linguistic, cultural and national diversities do not necessarily generate the disastrous confusion of Babel, but reflect like the white light in the rainbow the one message in an enriching multiplicity of colours”. The donations collected on 10 and 11 November will be used for the realization of six projects, in favour of the cohabitation between different cultures.
