TIRANA, ALBANIA

Our Ambassador of Peace and Vice President of European Muslim League Dr. Arben Ramkaj partecipated at the Conference "Interreligious Dialogue "Albania's Contribution to the Balkans" organized by the Center for Interreligious Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Center for Interreligious Cooperation in Elbasan was held today at the Gregorian University in Rome.

The meeting was moderated by Prof. Ambrogio Buongiovanni, Director of the Center for Interreligious Studies at the Gregorian, while the welcoming words were given by P. Pino di Luccio, Vice Rector of the Gregorian University, Prof. Dr. Skënder Topi, rector of "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Mons. Indunil J. K. Kodithuwakku, secretary of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican, Francesco Di Nitto, Italian ambassador to the Vatican, Majlinda Dodaj, Ambassador of Albania to the Vatican and Dr. Arben Ramkaj, also
President of the Center for Interreligious Cooperation in Elbasan.

Next, the session was opened by Dom Dorian Mjeshtri, Coordinator of the Interreligious Cooperation Center in Elbasan, who spoke about the challenges of this dialogue. Mario Imperatori, dean of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Naples, focused on the identity of interreligious dialogue between politics and theology.

Italian diplomat Andrea Benzo, head of the religious freedom and interreligious dialogue department at the Italian foreign ministry, spoke about religious freedom and the dialogue between universal values ​​and local specifics. Dr. Rudina Çollaku, head of the women's department at the Center for Interreligious Cooperation, brought an overview of the meeting culture of two religious communities after the fall of communism.

Finally, the dean of Philosophy of the Pontifical Gregorian University presented religious and secular relativism through challenges and opportunities.