Vatican City, Oct 16, 2020 / 07:15 am (CNA).- Pope Francis will attend an ecumenical prayer service and an interreligious ceremony for peace in Rome next week, the Vatican announced Friday.
The prayer service will be held at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in the afternoon on Tuesday, Oct. 20, and will include participants from other Christian traditions.
Following the prayer, Pope Francis will also join in a ceremony with representatives of the world’s major religions, to take place in Campidoglio Square.
The square, which sits on Rome’s Capitoline Hill, was designed by Michelangelo. The square’s surrounding buildings house a city museum and Rome’s town hall. The Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli is also on the Capitoline Hill.
The interreligious ceremony will follow the prayer service. It will include speeches, the proclamation and delivery of the 2020 Appeal for Peace, the lighting of a peace candle, and a socially distanced sign of peace.
A minute of silence will be observed to remember the victims of wars and of the coronavirus pandemic.
In addition to Pope Francis, other participants will include Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople; Haim Korsia, Chief Rabbi of France; Mohamed Abdelsalam Abdellatif, the Muslim General Secretary of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity; and Buddhist Shoten Minegishi.
The prayer service and ceremony are both organized by the lay Catholic community, Sant’Egidio.
The ecumenical service is called “An Encounter of Prayer for Peace in the Spirit of Assisi,” and the theme is “No one is saved alone — Peace and Fraternity.”
At the same time as the Christian prayer service, people of other religious traditions will be praying in their respective places of worship.
On its website, Sant’Egidio quoted Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, “Fratelli tutti,” which says that “the different religions, based on their respect for each human person as a creature called to be a child of God, contribute significantly to building fraternity and defending justice in society.”
“It is in the spirit of these words of Pope Francis… that the Community of Sant’Egidio has promoted the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace between the large world religions,” the website stated.
After the reading of the peace appeal, a group of children will deliver the appeal to ambassadors and to international and Italian political leaders in attendance.
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Is this the news anymore?
Is there any news about real, the true Church?
I guess F1 will be attending in his “Street clothes”, after all, why would the Vicar of Christ” want to stand out in such an auspicious gathering.
What a false narrative! Jesus is the Only Way to the Father…this event is a disgrace to true Christianity…Catholics are creating the False Prophet who will be joined with the Antichrist…Read your Bible and repent of your ways of deceipt.
We are pilgrims on the move. Peace is the way. May there be peace in the hearts of all pilgrims
What about Rick Warren? He was part of the “chrislam” formation back in its conception. Has he had an epiphany?
Apart from “chrislam” at its formation in the 1970s, Warren got it just about right as a speaker at Archbishop Chaput’s World Meeting on Families held in Philadelphia in 2015:
“In today’s society, materialism is idolized, immorality is glamorized, truth is minimized, sin is normalized, divorce is rationalized, and abortion is legalized. In TV and movies, crime is legitimized, drug use is minimized, comedy is vulgarized, and sex is trivialized. In movies, the Bible is fictionalized, churches are satirized, God is marginalized, and Christians are demonized. The elderly are dehumanized, the sick are euthanized, the poor are victimized, the mentally ill are ostracized, immigrants are stigmatized, and children are tranquilized. In families around the world, our manners are uncivilized, speech is vulgarized, faith is secularized, and everything is commercialized.”
Jesus is the one who saves & true Christians stick to their true faith no matter what. Since when do catholics go about praying with Muslims & Buddhists & the same for them???
“Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.” ~Ephesians 5:6-8