Emmanuel Macron urges non secular leaders to be “ambassadors of fraternity” | EUROtoday

During his forty-five minute speech delivered on Wednesday January 8 for the standard ceremony of greetings to non secular authorities, French President Emmanuel Macron urged non secular leaders to tackle a unifying position.

“The president is counting on us to be ambassadors of the fraternity”declared to Agence France-Presse, the president of the Protestant federation, Christian Krieger, after the ceremony on the Elysée. A brotherhood “by example” and interreligious dialogue.

According to a number of contributors, the president gave as an illustration the go to made, removed from the cameras, by the assorted leaders of faith to a college in Seine-Saint-Denis, on December 9.

“He told us that in such a difficult moment, it is important that religious people can express themselves and play a role”mentioned the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz.

“Need for unity”

In the presence of the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, and the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, Mr. Macron additionally addressed the 120 years of the 1905 regulation on the separation of Churches and State, calling for “a pedagogy of secularism”.

“It’s about teaching so that everyone understands French secularism”in keeping with the president of the Conference of Bishops of France, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, struck by the “serious tone of the president” and his “feeling of a need for unity”.

The head of state recalled “to what extent secularism is not an excluding concept, but a space for exchange and sharing”added the consultant of the Buddhists of France, Antony Boussemart.

According to the contributors, the president additionally raised the prospect of resuming work on the end-of-life regulation, saying he was prepared to satisfy once more with non secular leaders. “He told us that we will have to choose the lesser evil”in keeping with the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia.

Concerning the combat in opposition to anti-Semitism, “the president assured that this subject “has a European dimension and we will be able to recall it at Auschwitz” on January 27”throughout the commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the extermination camp, added Mr. Korsia.

Finally, the president harassed the significance of strengthening dialogue between the State and Muslims, in keeping with a number of contributors. It is about “give fellow Muslims a full feeling of belonging to the Nation”in keeping with Chems-Eddine Hafiz.