Building Fraternity through Dialogue and Collaboration – Conference

23-24 June 2026 – Rome

Building Fraternity through Dialogue and Collaboration

Please find here an invitation to a major conference of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains and Sikhs in Europe on: Building Fraternity through Dialogue and Collaboration in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome. 

23-24 June 2026 – Aula Minor

The conference will be in Italian and English with translation available.

“Today, the need for this fraternity is not a distant ideal but an urgent necessity. We cannot ignore the fact that too many of our brothers and sisters are currently suffering the horrors of violence and war. We must remember that “the first victim of every war is the human family’s innate vocation to fraternity”. At a time when the dream of building peace together is often dismissed as an “outdated utopia”, we must proclaim with conviction that human fraternity is a lived reality, stronger than all conflicts, differences and tensions. It is a potential that must be realised through a daily, concrete commitment to respect, sharing and compassion.”

MESSAGE OF POPE LEO XIV ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HUMAN FRATERNITY AND THE AWARDING OF THE ZAYED AWARD FOR HUMAN. FRATERNITY 2026 – [4 February 2026]