(M. Chiara Biagioni, SIR’s correspondent in Brussels/Malines) – "As one of the 138 Muslim Wise Men who signed" the letter "A common word between us and you" sent last year to the authorities of he Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christianity, "I wish to express the hope that, through this initiative as well as through this European Christian-Islamic Conference, Christians and Muslims will be able to renew a mutual knowledge and recognise in themselves and in the others that presence of the Merciful One, who guides our spiritual service and makes us the excellent models of citizenship in Europe and in the rest of the world". This was said this morning by imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, vice-president of Coreis (Islamic Religious Community), as he took the floor at the Brussels Conference promoted by Ccee and Kek. Pallavicini spoke of the initiatives that have been promoted after the letter of the 138 Muslim Wise Men. "A delegation of the signers of this letter was invited three months ago to an epoch-making meeting at Yale University with prestigious Christian theologians and American Protestant pastors. A few weeks ago in Cambridge we met the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury and we are getting ready for the forthcoming first Catholic-Muslim Forum in the Vatican, which will be ended by an audience with Pope Benedict XVI". (continued)” ” ” “
