Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow (20 and 21 June), Venice will host the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the International Research and Development Centre Oasis (www.oasiscenter.eu), which works in the area of relations between different religions and cultures, especially between Christians and Muslims. "As appeals to save the Christians who are ‘threatened with extinction’ or persecuted in the Islamic countries are multiplying all over the world states a release from the Centre , as some mass media are campaigning for helping those who cannot freely profess their faith, Oasis" continues "its studying and networking process, open to the challenges thrown by today’s society". This year’s focus will be an in-depth study of the "crossbreeding of civilisations and cultures", a subject that was introduced years ago by card. Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, and a "distinctive feature of the research conducted by Oasis", goes on the release, which, founded in 2004, publishes a six-monthly magazine in four bilingual editions. Composed of personalities from all over the world, especially Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Palestine, Arabia, Iraq, Tunisia, the international scientific committee meets once a year, once in Venice and once in a Middle Eastern country. They will meet the press on Thursday at 12.30.
