Participants at UN Prayer Service Praise Pope’s Abu Dhabi Declaration

Crux ^ | 9/18/19 | Christopher White

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NEW YORK - Pope Francis’s landmark agreement with the Muslim world, signed earlier this year during his visit to Abu Dhabi, was heralded at the annual prayer service on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly as “an antidote to hatred, violence, extremism and blind fanaticism.”

“The Declaration is an appeal to all people of goodwill to put aside particular and egotistic interests, be they individual, national or continental, to break down the walls in our minds and to cross the borders in order to promote and build up justice and peace,” said Bishop Paul Hinder, who serves as the Apostolic Vicar for Southern Arabia and participated in the pope’s visit to the region.

Hinder’s remarks came during his meditation for the annual prayer service, which was timed to coincide with the opening of the 74th session of the General Assembly and was attended by a standing room crowd of some 85 U.N. diplomats, 60 religious leaders, and 110 NGO leaders.

The prayer service, which was held at the Church of the Holy Family, the U.N.’s Catholic parish, was attended by U.N. General Secretary António Guterres and was hosted by Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the papal representative to the United Nations and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See. In February, Francis signed the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” along with Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azha, who represents Sunni Muslims around the globe.

The document, in Hinder’s summation, states that “Authentic teachings of religions must always ‘defend the values of mutual understanding, human fraternity, and harmonious coexistence’” and that “the East and West have to find a convergence of mutual collaboration on the basis of their complementary values.”

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