A powerful appeal, for "everyone’s personal and communitarian beliefs and free religious practice" to be respected everywhere. It was made by card. Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Papal Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, who for the firs time signed the message for thee end of Ramadan, named "Christians and Muslims: called to promote a culture of peace". "Religious freedom writes Tauran does not just mean freedom of worship", it is "one of the key aspects of the freedom of conscience, which is specific to any person and which is the cornerstone of human rights. It is by taking this need into account that a culture of peace and solidarity among men can be built and everyone can firmly commit themselves to build a more and more fraternal society, doing all they can to reject any form of violence, to denounce and reject any use of violence, which can never have any religious grounds, since if offends the resemblance of God in man". (continued)
