Our ambition in Greece and in Europe is to make man stand out as a standard of evaluation of everything that is happening in our lives.
This is the great challenge for church and politics, for those who say they are interested in man, said deputy foreign minister for religious affairs Markos Bolaris at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ two-day Conference on Religious and Ecclesiastical Diplomacy.
According to ANA-MPA, he stressed that in a world with many problems, fanaticism, intolerance, massacres and exterminations made in the name of God, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs resorts to the knowledge of the experts and calls for their own contribution to the question of ecclesiastical diplomacy, in order to reflect their priorities, preferences, demands, what they ask from our country and diplomacy, what their proposals are and how we can work together both locally, in Athens, and wordlwide.
Churches, as Mr. Bolaris said, “both because of their extensive network in several countries and continents and of the fact that they are at the heart of the problems, have the knowledge, the information and the experience,” and can “become valuable interlocutors in this project, in the initiative of effectively practicing religious diplomacy to serve the man.”
