“Algeria today, to what dialogue does it impel me?” and “Jesus seen through the three monotheist religions”: these are the next two seminars promoted by “El Kalima”, the Christian Centre for Relations with Islam in Brussels. The first will be held today, 6 December, at the Centre’s premises in Brussels, and will have as its witness Monsignor Miguel Larburu, vicar general of the diocese of Laghouat-Ghardaia. The second will be held in the same venue on 21 December, with the participation of Thomas Gergely, representing the Jewish, Moahmed El Battiui the Islamic and Monsignor Hans Vöcking the Catholic faith. The latter meeting is being organized in collaboration with the IDP, the Turkish Platform for Intercultural Dialogue. “Contacts between the religions are now continuous – comments the El Kalima Centre – but they are not always peaceful. That’s why we are called to build a more brotherly world. The specificity of our centre is that of addressing ourselves to the Muslims who worship God. Dialogue is not something to be improvised. It has to be carefully prepared, in respect for each interlocutor, in understanding and in diversity. It is fostered by education, formation, collaboration and encounter. And it is just this we are trying to do in this programme of meetings and in those that will be held in 2007”.
