Cardinal says Assisi will feature joint pilgrimage, not joint prayer

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – More than 300 delegates from dozens of Christian churches, the world’s major religions and nonbelievers will join Pope Benedict XVI in Assisi Oct. 27 for a peace gathering focused more on common pilgrimage than on prayer, a Vatican official said.
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For the first time, a Buddhist delegation from mainland China will join a Vatican-sponsored interreligious meeting and, also for the first time, four nonbelievers – three philosophers and an economist – have accepted a papal invitation to attend.
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The Assisi gathering will include 31 separate Christian delegations, said Father Andrea Palmieri, an official at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The 17 Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox delegations will include Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople; Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury will participate, as will the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, a Lutheran minister and secretary-general of the World Council of Churches.
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Other delegates will represent traditional religions of Native Americans, Africans and Asians; Hindu, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Bahai, Confucian, Taoist, Shinto delegations also will participate.
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It makes sense. Members of the non-Christian religions in that group have a radically different understanding of God than Catholics do. The Hindus even believe in many gods.
 
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