Category: WM Special

In times of religious and cultural clashes, it is possible to find in the experience and vision of mystics a bridge over troubled waters. For instance, the basic points of the Islamic spirituality are similar to the Christian spirituality. To use a metaphor, we can imagine Christian and Muslim “pilgrims” working together toward a common goal. Both can be considered “pilgrims” as they follow the same path of a common spiritual journey.

Mary is the model of interreligious dialogue, because she carries with herself the fundamental and unrenounceable aspects of human communication. The Blessed Virgin Mary represents the meeting point in the interreligious dialogue both because of the place she occupies in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and because of the analogies of her figure and the outstanding personalities of other religions.

Asia is in pieces due to prolonged conflicts. Poverty is skyrocketing. Corrupt politicians suck the economic blood of the nations to better themselves. The poor man is lying on the road unattended, dying… unless a Good Samaritan comes along. The Crucified Jesus is all over the continent, still hanging on the cross. He is hungry, He is thirsty, He has become a stranger in His own continent, He is without clothes, He is sick, and He is in prison. Thus, today, above all, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and Muslims ought to undergo a conversion. The real enemy is not true religions but evil structures which exploit and enslave women and men of our age.