Jaarlijks wordt een cultureel/religieuze ontmoeting georganiseerd in de kustplaats Rimini, Italië. Dit jaar is dat zondag 20 t/m zaterdag 26 augustus 2017.

The title of the next Meeting of Friendship Among Peoples, taken from J.W. Goethe’s “Faust” (“Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen!”), highlights our need to make that which is “bequeathed” to us truly our own. What is it that we’ve inherited? A list of values? A history? A few truths?

Today, in this POST-TRUTH era, what do we need in order to live? A constant stream of information in which real and fake news are spread in the same way makes it so that what is true is no longer evident. But do men and women have a need for truth?

It seems like there is nothing that is really objective; we’re constantly bombarded by an influx of data, often impossible to verify because of the volume and speed with which it is sent out, distinguished only by its viral nature. The “MAINSTREAM” in the true sense of the word dominates: an idea or a cause obsessively repeated is what determines what is right and just to pursue. We need a CRITERION that allows us to be free, to be able to know with sufficient certainty.

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