Talk:Day of Prayer

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I would like to suggest the article be kept, for the following reasons:

• It was the first meeting of representatives from diverse religions under the auspices and with the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church. It was called by Pope John Paul II. Meetings of different Christian denominations had gathered before in this context, but not non-Christian religions.
• The meeting was a prayer meeting, and not a dialogue. The different religious groups did not pray together, but separately. Nevertheless this represented a marked departure from Roman Catholic practice.
• The first meeting and the successive meetings have had a significant impact on inter-religious dialogue.
• The Assisi meetings, especially the first one, are occasions of criticism from the Roman Catholic religious Right, which maintains that they promote religious indifferentism, and as such, impact significantly upon the internal politics of the Roman Catholic Church.

The article, as it is, certainly needs expanding.

Cheers,--Gazzster 09:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• It would be good to name the persons present. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.59.196 (talk) 23:24, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to Wikipedia under "Religion", Jainism is noted as one of the major religions and would be comfortable supporting/attending an event such as this. I wonder if maybe it was accidentally neglected from the list of religions that attended. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gizziiusa (talk • contribs) 04:45, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]