Vatican Cardinals Issue Nostra Aetate Anniversary Call for Interfaith Dialogue

Three Vatican cardinals — Fernández, Koch and Koovakad — released "A Journey of Hope," marking 60 years of the Second Vatican Council's Nostra Aetate declaration and calling for renewed interreligious dialogue amid rising fundamentalism and extremism. Fernández stated "all religions stand for peace, never for war," while Koch addressed Jewish-Christian tension over Gaza and reaffirmed Vatican support for a two-state solution. The note frames interfaith unity as an institutional priority for parishes, schools and families, illustrating the kind of organised religious consolidation some prophetic readings link to growing pressure toward a single unifying moral voice.