Chaldean Patriarch urges interreligious dialogue at Assisi peace meeting

At the International Meeting for Peace in Assisi, Chaldean Patriarch Paul III Nona of Baghdad said dialogue is the "only option" in religiously mixed societies and pointed to modern martyrs as a basis for unity. He cited recent attacks on Christians in Nigeria, Jordan and Ethiopia, and the Spirit of Assisi tradition begun in 1986. The meeting shows interreligious peace-building being advanced as a response to violence, a pattern that sits alongside Scripture's warnings about religious unity detached from exclusive claims about Christ (John 14:6).