"The human person, the way of Europe. How to make our world more human?": this is the subject of the VII Assembly of the European Christians which will open tomorrow, June 15th, at Gniezno (Poland) and which will be attended by Christians from different confessions and religious communities, men of culture, politicians, mass media operators. Speeches will be given by card. Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, Hans Gert Poettering, president of the EU Parliament, Joaquin Navarro Valls, the former director of the Vatican Newsroom, the rabbi Irvin Greenberg, president of the Steering Committee of the Museum of the Holocaust in Washington and president of the "Jewish Life Network". The organisers, as well as promoting "the ecumenical dimension of the Assembly", intend to boost "dialogue with the leaders of non-Christian religions". The meetings at Gniezno, explain the promoters, "should help strengthen a proactive evangelising attitude, open to European problems and to ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, amidst the members of the European Christian organisations". So, the Assembly "should give evidence of the Christians’ responsibility for today’s Europe, highlighting the role of Christianity as a key factor in the growth of the Old Continent".
