Cardinal Koovakad: fraternity the only path to peace, marks Assisi's 40th anniversary

Cardinal George Koovakad, head of the Vatican's Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, said at Rome's Antonianum university on 7 October that the 1986 Assisi interreligious prayer day remains an "urgency" amid rising arms races and nuclear deterrence. He presented fraternity among faiths as the only sustainable path to peace, while stressing that the 1986 event avoided mixing rites. The address shows interreligious unity being framed by a major church institution as the answer to war, a theme worth watching as religious cooperation is increasingly proposed as a basis for global peace.