Cardinal Schönborn on the Importance of Dialogue for Peace: KAICIID Panel Discussion

Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna, Austria delivered the opening address at the the panel discussion “Nostra Aetate in Our Time: Interreligious Relations 50 years after the Second Vatican Council,” which convened representatives of religious communities in Austria and KAICIID’s Board of Directors at the International Dialogue Centre on 19 November 2015. During the symposium, the speakers discussed the ecumenical perspectives of the landmark Declaration, its impact on the Abrahamic religions and the future of interreligious dialogue. The multi-religious speakers included KAICIID Board Members Fr. Miguel Ayuso, Swami Agnivesh, H.E. Metropolitan Emmanuel, Dr. Seyyed Ata’ollah Mohajerani, Reverend Kosho Niwano, Rev. Mark Poulson, Chief Rabbi David Rosen and Dr.Mohammad Sammak. They were joined by Bhai Sahib Mohinder, Singh mukhi-Sewadar of the Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak, Prof. Ingeborg Gabriel, Head of the Institute for Social Ethics of the University of Vienna, and Prof. Susanne Heine, of the Institute for Practical Theology and Psychology of Religions of the University of Vienna.