Metropolitan Emmanuel of France was invited to the TRT show “Central Greece Good Evening”, on Wednesday, November 25, 2020.
The Metropolitan of France in his interview stressed that the purpose of academic interfaith dialogue is the mutual acquaintance of peoples and cultures. He particularly stressed that in the current phenomenon of religious violence in Europe, there is an exploitation of religion to serve the goals of terrorist organizations such as ISIS. “We should not target a particular religion like Islam and it would be unfair to see a terrorist behind every Muslim. Alas if we saw it that way, especially here in France where the Muslim community numbers more than five million people. Also here in France we have the largest Jewish community in Western Europe and the second largest in the world after the US. So you understand that in France people with different religions and different backgrounds coexist. The official state, which is a secular state that does not recognize any religion, is trying to develop a peaceful dialogue between the representatives of all religions,” said Metropolitan Emmanuel.