Continuing to meet: memories and experiences of interreligious dialogue

Interreligious dialogue begins with an authentic encounter between people who are deeply rooted in their own identities and, through their openness to one another, discover a meaning that speaks both to their own lives and to the wider world. The friendship between Father Luigi Giussani and the Buddhist monk Shodo Habukawa, a prominent figure in Shingon Buddhism, offers a powerful example of this kind of encounter. What can their experience teach us about fostering dialogue between different religious traditions in a world increasingly marked by division and conflict?

With Wael Farouq, Director of the Arabic Cultural Institute (ACI); Fausto Taiten Guareschi, emeritus abbot of the Monastero Shōbōzan Fudenji, Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma; Emilia Guarnieri, former President of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples ETS Foundation; Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, Vice President of COREIS Comunità Religiosa Islamica Italiana and imam of the al-Wahid central mosque in Milan; Wakako Saito, professor of Italian Culture and Religion at Aichigakuin University in Nagoya. Songs and music curated by Marina Valmaggi  and Coro Internazionale San Nicola Moderated by Ambrogio Pisoni, priest of the Diocese of Milan