In the statement, the signers reassert "the principle of integration" and acknowledge "the right of freedom of conscience" and therefore the right to "change one’s religion or decide to live without a religion", "the right to demonstrate publicly and to voice one’s religious convictions without being ridiculed or intimidated into silence by prejudice or stereotyping intentionally or through lack of knowledge". Christians and Muslims, as citizens and men of faith, "offer their common witness so that the human being may discover his/her own identity through his/her relationship with God" "This leads us to affirm goes on the statement the utmost importance and vital role of the family, of human dignity, of social justice, of care for the environment" as well as "the condemnation of the use of violence in the name of religion and those hostile forms of militant secularism that create discrimination among citizens and leave no space for religious belief and practice". To promote mutual acquaintance, the signers also propose "to open the churches and mosques to visitors from other communities and to academic meetings". (continued)
