Opening up to Interreligious Encounters. The Experience of the Deir Mar Musa Community in Syria

Fr. Paolo Dall'Oglio, s.j.

Honorary Doctor of the KU Leuven and the U.C.Louvain 2009

Opening up to Interreligious Encounters.
The Experience of the Deir Mar Musa Community in Syria

Tuesday 3 February 2009, 4 pm
Conference Room, Pope's College
Hogeschoolplein
3000 Leuven

Paolo Dall’Oglio was born in Rome in 1954. He is an Italian Jesuit who strongly believes in faith, justice and truth. In 1992, he turned the monastery of Mar Musa el-Habashi - situated to the north of Damascus and abandoned for centuries on end - into the home of a newly founded and miscellaneous oecumenical religious community. The monastery of ‘Holy Moses’, ‘Mar Musa’ in the Arabic language, is famous for its hospitality and for its commitment to the dialogue with the Muslims. The community wishes to establish a positive relationship between the Islam world and Christianity. The choice of the Arabic language for daily use and for liturgical life in Paolo Dall’Oglio’s oecumenical and international community springs from this goal.

For more information, visit the following websites:

http://www.deirmarmusa.org/
http://www.companysj.com/v213/wilderness.htm

For further questions, please contact:

Pierre.Vanhecke@theo.kuleuven.be
Jacques.Haers@theo.kuleuven.be