Dialogue and Co-operation for the Common Good

Romanian Orthodox Church 29/5/2012 The opening speech of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at the Interreligious Symposium “ Diaspora – A Reality of the Society of Today”, Palace of the Patriarchate, 29 – 30 May 2012: It is with joy that we greet all the participants in the Interreligious Symposium on the theme Diaspora – a Reality of the Society of Today, organised by the Romanian Patriarchate in co-operation with Sapir Center of Jerusalem and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, with the support of the Romanian State Secretariat for Religious Denominations, an event hosted at the Palace of the Patriarchate in Bucharest, from 29 – 30 May 2012. We remember with emotion the moment when, 14 years ago, we opened, on 20 July 1998, as Metropolitan of Moldova and Bucovina, the International Judaic – Christian Symposium at Durău Monastery, on the theme “The Social Morals of the Prophets and the Spirituality of the Psalms“.