Vatican City
The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue on Thursday offered greetings as Diwali approaches on November 12, stressing that Interreligious dialogue can boost mutual trust among interfaith communities and can further contribute to sustaining peace globally.
The Vatican in an official statement shared by the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, stated, Interreligious dialogue possesses great potential for nurturing mutual trust and social friendship among interfaith communities, and it has indeed become a necessary condition for contributing to peace in the world, citing Pope Francis.
It further added that it is necessary for religions and religious leaders to strive to encourage their followers to be the people whose lives are shaped by truth, justice, love and freedom.
This year marks the 16th anniversary of Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), the Encyclical Letter of Pope John XXIII.
Pope John XXIII was the former head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1958 until his death in June 1963.
Notably, when the world was dealing with deep troubles and was on the brink of a nuclear war, that document issued a timely, impassioned and much-needed plea to world leaders and people to work together for peace, and urged them to find amicable solutions to problems in a spirit of mutual trust, through dialogue and negotiations.
Pope John XXIII, a revered saint, said, Peace is but an empty word if it does not rest upon…an order that is founded on truth, built up on justice, nurtured and animated by charity, and brought into effect under the auspices of freedom.
