(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 20 – “The Meeting, now in its 45th edition, is also offering its contribution of culture, dialogue and humanity this year”. This is how the message sent by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to the President of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples Foundation, Bernhard Scholz, begins. “It is an event – continues the Head of State – that has been able to question the founding reasons of our society and that continues to renew itself, involving young and old, trying to grasp beyond the contingencies what moves most deeply. I extend my warmest greetings to all who will take part, in the certainty that the days in Rimini will be a precious enrichment for everyone, and I express my appreciation to the organizers and volunteers for their commitment”. “The theme of this edition – he adds – expresses the cultural roots of the Meeting by offering an open look at the extraordinary transformations we are experiencing. We want to search for the essential just as the global flows of information become rivers in flood, while technosciences show us solutions that until yesterday were unimaginable, while the opportunities offered to individuals re-propose the fallacious flattery of man’s omnipotence. And yet, in the face of so many new opportunities for humanity, we experience first-hand the horror, the atrocities and the escalation of wars, the desire for domination, with a dramatic return to the past. Feelings of fear, mistrust, sometimes indifference, often resentment and hatred, resurface”. “For this reason – he concludes – it is essential to put the person back at the center. The desire for life and fullness, in the relationship with the community. Because the essential is not in the separate, self-sufficient self, but in the encounter with the other, in the discovery of the truths that the other is the bearer of, and therefore in walking together, in the tomorrow to be thought and built. The educational and cultural commitment, of which the Meeting bears witness, has great value. (ANSA).
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