News from the East, especially from India, involving the bloody persecution of Christians, bring to the fore the crucial issue of religious freedom, one that cannot be put off any longer. Viewed as something positive in all societies, religious freedom was the main topic addressed by the Oasis international scientific committee that met last June in Jordan.
This newsletter will publish some of the contributions presented at that venue, in particular one by Fr Samir Khalil Samir, Jesuit and Islamic scholar, who describes Lebanon as a one of a kind in the Arab world; and another by Prof. Boghos Levon Zekyan, Lecturer of Armenian language and literature at the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice, in which he reflects upon the limits of freedom of expression.
As for the recent tragic reports about anti-Christian violence readers can look up a recent interview given by Oasis Director Mgr. Gabriel Richi Alberti to the Italian weekly Famiglia Cristiana.
From France Henri Hude, Professor of moral philosophy at the military academy of Saint-Cyr, ponders on Pope Benedict XVI's trip to France drawing our attention to the signs of a new path for a post-Enlightenment laïcité;
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News from the East, especially from India, involving the bloody persecution of Christians, bring to the fore the crucial issue of religious freedom, one that cannot be put off any longer. Viewed as something positive in all societies, religious freedom was the main topic addressed by the Oasis international scientific committee that met last June in Jordan.
Chantal Delsol, La nature du populisme ou les figures de l'idiot (The nature of populism or the characters of the Idiot), Les éditions Ovadia, Nice 2008
