{"id":17952,"date":"2013-02-11T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/02\/20130211_convegnoispi-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T11:04:40","slug":"20130211_convegnoispi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/02\/20130211_convegnoispi\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious freedom \u2013 ISPI Conference – Terzi: our battle against extremism in the interests of peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

The defence of religious freedom serves to combat violent forms of extremism that use religion as a pretext for their own dissemination, Minister Giulio Terzi underscored as he opened an ISPI-sponsored international workshop on the promotion of religious freedom today at the foreign ministry in Rome, co-chaired by Italy and Jordan.<\/P>
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Italy\u2019s guiding role in the UN<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Extremists and radical groups, Terzi pointed out, \u201cabuse religious messages for their own violent political ends\u201d. On the contrary, \u201cthe battle is between those who wish to impose religion as a form of totalitarianism and those who wish to send a message of tolerance in order to build a modern society\u201d, he underscored, recalling Italy\u2019s continuing commitment to the cause of tolerance and dialogue, and its \u201cguiding role\u201d in the UN \u2014 which led in December to the adoption of two resolutions in defence of religious freedom \u2014 and the EU, where new guidelines on these matters are being drafted.<\/P>
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System comparisons and media\u2019s role the workshop focus<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Today\u2019s conference, in which many students are participating, is attempting to analyse the resurgence of religion in international relations in terms of various aspects: the first, a comparison of various constitutional and legal systems; second, the role of religion in the cultural, economic and social contexts of various countries and geographic areas; third, the role of information, communications, networks and traditional media.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defence of religious freedom serves to combat violent forms of extremism that use religion as a pretext for their own dissemination, Minister Giulio Terzi underscored as he opened an ISPI-sponsored international workshop on the promotion of religious freedom today at the foreign ministry in Rome, co-chaired by Italy and Jordan. Italy\u2019s guiding role in […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,42],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diritti-umani","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}