Posted On 2011-09-04 In Dilexit ecclesiam

Tenth Anniversary of September 11 – Global Memory during the World Peace Meeting

INTERNATIONAL, Sant’Egidio. 11 September 2001 –  11 September 2011. In Munich, in connection with Ground Zero in New York, a global memory collects the major world religions.

 

 

 

 

The leaders of all major world religions, on Sunday, 11 September 2011, at 14.46 (8:46 in New York, time of the attack to the Twin Towers) will meet in Múnich in Marstallplatz, in video connection with Ground Zero, for the Ceremony in memory of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. The initiative has been taken bt the Community of Sant’Egidio and the Archdiocese of Múnich-Freising.

The ceremony will see the participation of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Christian Wulff.

This is the opening event of the World Meeting “Bound to Live Together. Religions and Cultures in Dialogue” to be held in Múnich from 11th to 13th September, sponsored by the Community of Sant’Egidio and the German Archdiocese. GO TO THE PROGRAM

Ten years from 11 September 2001 and 25 years from the Meeting of Prayer for Peace held in Assisi in 1986, the “spirit of Assisi” comes back in Germany.

At close range, and in preparation for the 25th anniversary of the historic meeting of Assisi, that sees Pope Benedict XVI inviting the leaders of major world religions for a great day in October, the Meeting takes place in a symbolic place of crossroads for European history.

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