{"id":37911,"date":"2026-11-03T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/interreligious-evening-peace-contemplating-dialoguing-together-bernardins-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:42:03","slug":"interreligious-evening-peace-contemplating-dialoguing-together-bernardins-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/interreligious-evening-peace-contemplating-dialoguing-together-bernardins-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Interreligious Evening for Peace: “Contemplating and Dialoguing Together”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To mark the fortieth anniversary of the Assisi meeting, the interreligious gathering called by John Paul II in 1986 to pray for peace, the Coll\u00e8ge des Bernardins<\/strong><\/a> is holding an interreligious evening for peace on Tuesday 15 December 2026, in partnership with the Al Mowafaqa Institute (Rabat). The Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP) took part in shaping and steering the evening, which is supported by the association L’Islam au XXIe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A time of dialogue, then of meditation and finally a concert will bring together religious leaders and artists to keep alive, today as before, this spirit of fraternity in the service of peace.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an introduction by the Al Mowafaqa Institute, the Coll\u00e8ge des Bernardins and Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, a round table will bring together Abdelhamid Achak, director of Dar El Hadith El Hassania (Al Quaraouiyine), Antony Boussemart, co-president of the Buddhist Union of France, and a third speaker yet to be announced. It will be chaired by Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan<\/strong><\/a>, dean of the Theologicum, the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the ICP, whom Pope Leo XIV appointed on 19 October 2026 as a member of the International Theological Commission for 2026-2031. An interreligious meditation will follow the round table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening ends with a concert: the French-Moroccan singer Fran\u00e7oise Atlan shares the stage with three artists of the Gnawa brotherhood of Rabat, led by maalem Seddik. In the organisers’ words, “this creation will bring Judeo-Muslim heritages and their mystical dimensions to life, in a shared impulse of fraternity”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same anniversary is at the heart of the two webinars “The Interreligious Meeting of Assisi, 40 Years On”<\/strong><\/a> (26 November and 17 December), organised in partnership with Pluriel<\/em>, and of the Al Mowafaqa Institute’s inaugural lecture, “40 Years after the Assisi Meeting: How Can Religions Serve Peace?”<\/strong><\/a> (Rabat, 10 November).<\/p>\n\n\n\n