The youth who have enrolled in the “Mosaic of peace”, an inter-religious meeting promoted by Archbishop Angelo Massafra in the diocese of Scutari will arrive from Albania, Kossovo, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey. They will be given accommodation in the “Village of peace” at Tarabosh. Organized by the Catholic diocese but open to the presence and collaboration of youth of Orthodox and Moslem faith, “the ‘Mosaic of peace’ due to be held from 5 to 7 March explains the animator Jergj Guri has as its theme ‘Family: a community of love’ and is based on the words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, our Albanian saint who said, among other things: ‘Remember: love begins from your home, in your family … and the actions of love are actions of peace”. To this end we are proposing meditations, meetings, assemblies in the intercultural and inter-religious spirit that characterises the ‘Village of peace'”. The programme of the meeting includes an introductory address by Archbishop Massafra, president of the Albanian Episcopal Conference, a report by Jesuit Father Lelo Lanzilli, on the theme “What does the family mean?”, work groups and debates. The conclusions will be drawn by don Oreste Benzi (Italian founder of the Pope John XXIII Community). “What will characterise the three days adds Jergj Guri will be openness also to the concrete experiences of solidarity with local families, to give the participants a real sense of what it means to ‘help the family’. The participants will become animators in their own ethnic and religious communities, in the countries of south-east Europe, and help diffuse the values they have learned in this inter-religious village”.
