KAICIID Global Interfaith Forum goes into second day in Vienna
(Vatican Radio) The first-ever Global Forum of the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International
Centre for Intercultural and Inter-religious Dialogue – KAICIID – continues Tuesday
in Vienna, Austria.
This two-day event brings together hundreds of religious
leaders, experts and policymakers from every continent and every major world religion
to consider The Image of the Other in interreligious and intercultural education.
Tuesday is the second and final day of working sessions, the first of which is a public
plenary discussion with government ministers for education, foreign affairs, integration,
and related portfolios from Pakistan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Germany, Spain
and Austria.
Following the plenary session begins the KAICIID Dialogue Experience:
a series of dozens of closed-door, small group, interactive roundtable discussions
on topics ranging from strategies for challenging stereotypes, to the question whether
it is even possible to create mutual respect between religious and secular worldviews.
These small group sessions are closed to journalists.
The closing session in
the afternoon focuses on Dialogue as a Path for the Future, and gives way to a two-part
gala dinner in the evening that takes place at the historic Spanish Riding School
and the Hofburg Palace. Listen to Chris Altieri's report: