According to a statement released by its organizers, this meeting, also known as the Meeting of Rimini, will have this year the theme “In desert places we will build with new bricks” and within the framework of it will be held numerous talks, workshops, concerts, as well as literary and sporting events.
The event, organized annually since August 1980 by the Communion and Liberation Catholic association, is now recognized as one of the most important in this European nation.
The theme that will guide the discussions “aims, above all, to express hope for something new in the drama of history, the desire to build together places where we can share the search and experience of what is true, good and just,” note the promoters.
In total, 150 conferences with more than 550 speakers were scheduled, as well as 30 exhibitions and shows, most of them on the 120,000 square metres of the Rimini Fair, although some will be held at the Teatro Galli in that city, located in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna.
On this first day, a presentation of the former Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi about the future of Europe is expected in a conversation that will also include the participation of Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, as well as Raffaele Fitto, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission.
Various panels will include Italian Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini for Transport; Andrea Abodi for Sport; Tommaso Foti for European Affairs; Giancarlo Giorgetti for Economy; Francesco Lollobrigida; of Agriculture and Matteo Piantedosi, from the Interior, among other personalities.
Among the religious authorities attending the meeting are the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who will be present at the meeting dedicated to the 1700 anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, as well as Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI).
Bernhard Schloz, president of the Foundation of the Meeting, told in statements to the press that “with this meeting, we want to give life to experiences of exchange and acceptance, reconciliation and positivity in the deserts of loneliness and resignation, conflict and war”, add the source.
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