"There are many expectations for this meeting. Among them there is that of renewing the brotherhood between Christians and Muslims in the one God." So spoke the Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, vice-president of Coreis Italy (Islamic Religious Community) and a member of the Islamic delegation who is attending a meeting tomorrow at the Vatican with "24 international Muslim scholars and 24 prominent Catholic Church representatives." The wish of Mr Pallavicini, who was among the 138 signatories of the Letter "A Common Word Between Us", is that this ‘brotherhood’ in the one God, which unites Muslims and Christians, "will be clearly perceived so that with strength we can meet the intellectual challenge of our contemporary society, whose need is to have credible, influential and helpful people ready to stand for true religiosity and inspire concrete actions to promote social cohesion and pacific coexistence in every region of the world." On the seriousness of these initiatives, the Imam said: "There is room for dialogue and its reach will be determined by the listeners’ intentions and sensibility." ” ” ” “
