The Religions Parliaments                        

The Religion Parliaments are spaces that invite every people having good will, spirit and faith, to meet together from the wide and rich diversity of the world’s religious and spiritual traditions. These are days that invite to listening and receiving with open hearts and minds, to dialogue for mutual understanding, to think about the most burning troubles the world has to confront to, and to undertake to find new solutions leading to peace.

Such an interreligious dialogue can have, at least, three different meanings: 

1. In a world where religious diversity increases and becomes more and more visible, seeking new ways of contact between the different religious traditions appears as a necessity. Understanding, respect and harmony can only rise among the religious communities from communication and confidence.
2. In a world wishing and seeking for peace, justice and sustainability, religions can provide big wealth, inspiring creative responses and mobilizing the wills. Religious traditions share precious values that have necessarily to be practiced and reinforced through dialogue and cooperation.
3. In a world often dominated by disorientation and even by sadness, interreligious dialogue enables, indirectly but necessarily, to go into everyone’s spiritual roots in depth, into everyone’s own tradition and personal process. At the same time, it brings the undeniable benefits of the knowledge of other religious traditions.

The Parliaments do not pretend the creation of a sole religion, what would mean the dissolution of dialogue itself. The core of the Parliament’s dialogue is receptive listening and honest expressing, an encounter into the deepness and richness of humanity’s religious live. This happens from the respect of every religious identity, and without any will of proselytism.