Freedom of religion as "serious case" in the relationship between liberty and truth: it is going to be the subject of the works of the Scientific Committee of the International Study and Research Centre Oasis, established five years ago by Card. Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice. Its meeting is taking place on 23rd and 24th June in Amman, Jordan. During the meeting, they will try to investigate how to match the value of religious freedom with the prevailing tradition of a given people. “Jordan is a 97% Muslim country, where nevertheless the Christian minority enjoys a positive condition, on the whole, though with some shadows", said Cardinal Scola in an interview, in the June Oasis newsletter. A country "with scarce raw materials" but with a good living standard which, pointed out the Patriarch, "in many respects, is the living evidence of what the Middle East might be if the logic of mutual contraposition was abandoned and the moderation path was followed. In this respect, the contributions which several members of the royal family are paying to both Intermuslim dialogue and Christian-Islam dialogue are acknowledged and appreciated worldwide”. The programme includes speeches by Msgr. Gabriel Richi Alberti, director of the Oasis Centre; Card. Scola; Nikolaus Lobkowicz, director of the Zimos Institute of Central and Oriental Europe Studies; and Khaled al-Jaber, from the University of Petra. ” “
