Annual Rimini Meeting Begins

(25 Aug 08 - RV) The annual Rimini Meeting hosted by the Communion and Liberation Movement began yesterday in the Italian resort city. The 29th edition of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples has as its theme “Either Protagonists or Nobodies” and seeks to reflect on the concept of the person.
Participants come from around the world for the week-long event, discussing culture, religion, politics – and how they interact. One topic of discussion is the situation on the divided island of Cyprus, where the Turkish third of the island was split off from the Greek majority after Turkey invaded in 1974. Although the Greeks are Orthodox Christian and the Turks are Muslim, Chrysostomos Kykkotis, an Orthodox priest from the island, says religion is not the reason for the conflict.