” ““The light of God as caritas is the one that drives us out of the temptation of desperation. If we find again that the truth of religion coincides with love”, we will look “together for ways of solidarity and peace”, because “this is the will of a God that is love”. This is the comment (also in English on Sir daily news) of mgr. Aldo Giordano, secretary general of Ccee (Council of the European Bishops Conferences), about the relations between Christianity and Islam, in the light of the violent reactions to the publication of the satirical cartoons on Muhammad, which opens the new issue of SirEuropa, online from tonight at: old.agensir.it (also available in English). “Behind the strong satire against the founder of a religion” writes mgr. Giordano, one “can’t find the intelligence of love”, and “behind the disproportionate reactions of some groups” that “think they’re defending their religion with violence”, one cannot certainly catch any glimpse of “the style of the disciples of a God that is love”. A “darkness of hatred” on which “Father Andrea Santoro’s testimony rises as high as the sky”, as he referred to the Roman priest murdered in Turkey on February 5th. For the secretary general of Ccee, before the fear which is felt now at the meeting of cultures and religions, “also for Europe, the time has come to do a good heart-searching”. “If we find again that the truth of religion coincides with love he states as believers in different religions”, we will look “together for ways of solidarity and peace”. “This he concludes is the way we look for, as European Churches”.
