This article comes from the Tehran Times.
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Iran, Vatican discussing creation of monotheistic religions front
The seventh round of meetings between Iran’s Center for Interreligious Dialogue and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) began on Monday at the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) headquarters.
At the meeting, ICRO Director Mohammad-Baqer Khorramshad said that the united front can be set up through emphasizing the cultural affinities of the monotheistic religions.
The dissemination of the ways monotheistic religions respond to the basic needs of people can be helpful in the interreligious dialogue, Khorramshad added.
PCID President Cardinal Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, PCID Secretary General Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, and a number of other Vatican officials are attending the meeting.
Cardinal Tauran thanked Iran for its efforts to organize the meeting.
Mutual respect and trust and the younger generation should be topics of discussion in the dialogue between monotheistic religions, Cardinal Tauran said.
The belief in a plurality of deities and membership in polytheistic sects are the main blights of modern societies, he added.
Unity within the monotheistic front is the only way to avoid depravity, he noted.
The three-day meeting ends today.
