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Pope Benedict meets with Israel's religious leaders
Pope Benedict XVI met on Thursday with Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Druze leaders who make up the Israeli Religious Council. In his address the Pope recalled his own visit to Jerusalem in 2009 and his prayer at the Western Wall for peace in the Holy Land. The Pope noted that "in our troubled times, dialogue between different religions is becoming ever more important in the generation of an atmosphere of mutual understanding and respect that can lead to friendship and solid trust in each other. This is pressing for the religious leaders of the Holy Land who, while living in a place full of memories sacred to our traditions, are tested daily by the difficulties of living together in harmony."
Recalling his recent meeting in Assisi with representatives of all the world's major faith traditions, the Pope stressed that "as religious leaders we are called to reaffirm that the rightly lived relationship of man to God is a force for peace," adding that "all of us are called to commit ourselves anew to the promotion of greater justice and dignity, in order to enrich our world and to give it a fully human dimension. Justice, together with truth, love and freedom," he said, "is a fundamental requirement for lasting and secure peace in the world. Movement towards reconciliation requires courage and vision, as well as the trust that it is God himself who will show us the way."Among those meeting with the Pope was the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, who spoke to Philippa Hitchen about the aim of the encounter....
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