International Day of Human Fraternity

  The Summer 2021 issue of Communio is centered on the theme of “Faith and Culture.” One commonplace perspective on this relationship holds that Christians, just like any sectarian or ethnic group, might have their own insular culture, but that this can only have tangential bearing on the larger culture in which they are embedded. Hence the faithful must decide whether and when to accommodate their way of life to the more encompassing culture at the risk dissipating this way of life, or else to hold fast to all that sets them apart and thus to accept irrelevance to the society of which they are members. In a variety of ways, the essays collected here seek to overcome this dilemma by acknowledging that Christianity , uniquely among all worldviews, matters for the whole of culture, and this precisely because it is through the Church alone that God addresses every need and perfects every good of human life, even down to its seemingly least significant expressions. As such, the faith o...

 A day for prayer, peace, and supplications for the good of all humanity.

  Interreligious dialogue is a world agenda that is being discussed and has been practiced by countless people from time to time. It has not remained bilateral, or even multilateral, but has also become global . The first, historically speaking, was the founding of the World Conference on Religionand Peace (WCRP) -also known as Religions for Peace -by Nikkyo Niwano in 1970 in Kyoto, Japan, that affiliated 75 countries around the globe, where some activists hold a number of interreligious dialogue events, including Asian Conference onReligion and Peace in 1976.  The events’ topics make us aware that, to some extent, interreligious dialogue is related to peace. As human beings that never stop trying to create a better peaceful world, interreligious dialogue, then, will always keep going. Even dialogue goes far and further until this present time. The current state of interreligious dialogue for millennia religion was at the very heart of all human societies. This, then, is th...