BASILICA DI SAN FRANCESCO ASSISI As I write this Pope Benedict has just left with heads of the delegations of different faiths back to Rome where tomorrow he will greet them again in an audience in the Apostolic Palace I will be analysing today s event in detail in a forthcoming article for Am

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BASILICA DI SAN FRANCESCO ASSISI Speaking to some 300 representatives of the world s major religions gathered in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli Pope Benedict XVI this morning expressed shame for the complicity of faith in violence and praised agnostics and other searchers for helping

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SANTA MARIA DEGLI ANGELI ASSISI The 200-odd religious leaders called here by Pope Benedict XVI have just watched a video about the history of the Assisi interfaith gatherings It was well made scenes of war contrasted with the commitments of religious leaders to peace It was colourful multilin