"I believe religions, or more precisely, that heavenly faiths do not produce religious conflicts but it is the policy of the conquest of power that distorts religion and makes it instrumental to the profane interests of different groups". With these words, Arben Xaferri, an intellectual from FYROM, concluded his speech last night in Naples, during the round table on "Mediterranean: religions and cohabitation", promoted as part of the Inter-Religious Meting "For a violence-free world" which is going on in Naples. Also last night, Ptrik Ho from Hong Kong, during the conference on "Asia-Europe: between challenge and cooperation", highlighted that a "really modern" society "can draw the essence out of the western values as well as out of the eastern values through an imperceptible internalisation of a wide range of ideas that may sometimes be contradictory". Hong Kong he added provides "a fair and reliable platform to shape modernity" in Asia: "together we can rejuvenate and add values to the Asian culture as well as to the Western culture".
