Cardinal Zuppi says religions can promote peace at Assisi 40th anniversary meeting

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops' conference, told Vatican media at the opening of the International Meeting for Peace that religions reveal the paths to peace and can urge rulers to choose peace "in the very name of God". The gathering marks 40 years since John Paul II's 1986 interreligious event at Assisi. LifeSite, a critical Catholic outlet, argues the remarks omit Christ's exclusive claims. The event shows interfaith peace-making gaining institutional endorsement, a pattern of religious unity offered as a route to peace that Scripture warns should be tested against the gospel (2 Corinthians 11:13-15; John 14:6).