Rome, 3 February 2020

ARA PACIS CONFERENCE HALL

During the X edition of the World Interfaith Harmony Week, annually organized by the United Nations, on Monday 3 February 2020 from 9.00 to 17.30 in the Ara Pacis Conference Room, via di Ripetta 160 Rome, the Interreligious Table of Rome in collaboration with the Foundation Maitreya - Institute of Buddhist culture and with the patronage of the Municipality of Rome 1 Center proposes a conference on the theme of the role and perspectives of interreligious dialogue in an Italy that changes both for the multiplicity of faiths present in the country today and for their impact on numerical level.

The conference is divided into three sessions and aims to be a moment of reflection and exchange which:

1. shed light with the interventions of qualified representatives of the faiths on the activities and good practices that have been carried out in various Italian contexts, (in addition to the Interreligious Table in Rome as an example the Forum of Religions in Milan or the Interfaith Committee of Turin or the Groups specific to the CEI) and on the possibility of creating a network - such as the inter-religious Manifesto of Rights in end-of-life paths - to avoid the fragmentation visible today in favor of a profitable and enriching interaction for all, identifying specific areas of intervention: education , health, culture, aggregation centers and more;

2. reflect on the relations between religious confessions and institutions represented by parliamentarians sensitive to the issue of religious rights and freedom (remember the difficulty still present today of passing a law on religious freedom that replaces the 1929 norms) as well as state managers and representatives of the Municipalities that closely follow the various realities and problems connected with relations with the Administrations: Agreements, opening of places of worship, lists of ministers of worship, relations with the prefectures where interreligious tables must operate to guarantee safety and legality;

3. pay attention to the world of journalistic and radio and television information in which the spaces dedicated to religions are extremely limited and sometimes characterized by simplistic and not very in-depth information with the intervention of representatives of national and intercultural newspapers, which instead operate directly in the sector and with young second generation journalists who can offer another look at pluralism. There will be a roundup of what is on the web, news and fake