” “Jane Williams, an Anglican theologian and the wife of the archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, took part last night in a meeting of women from different Christian confessions and other religions (Jewish and Muslim) at the Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, in Rome, directed by Donna Orsutto. Williams, after warning that "women are agents of peace and reconciliation", questioned the fact women, however, "naturally tend" to peace more than men. Then, she highlighted that "the lack of institutional power" and "status" are in fact "a great gift for women". Finally, Williams commented that women are "the builders of an alternative view" and spoke of some experiences of women in Burundi and Pakistan alongside reconciliation and peace events. Zenyep Ozbek, a Turkish student at the Gregorian University, spoke of women in Islam and said that "we women embody God’s love more than men". Eva Ruth Palmieri, an Italian-American Jewish woman, recalled that "the great communicative skills" of some great women of Israel (Eve, Hanna, Ruth, Abigail, Miriam, Ester), and Maeve Heaney, an Irish Catholic, warned women against the "temptation of power". Today at 11 am, Rowan Williams is due to hold a press conference in which he is going to speak of his meeting with the Pope of yesterday.” “
