{"id":52873,"date":"2017-12-05T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=52873"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:49:02","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%ae%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d9%83%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d9%87-%d8%a8%d9%85%d8%a4%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b7%d8%b1%d9%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%ae%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d9%83%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d9%87-%d8%a8%d9%85%d8%a4%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b7%d8%b1%d9%81\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Ermia at &#8220;Extremism and its negative impact on the future of Arab cultural heritage&#8221; conference:&#8221;God wants people to cooperate and live together in benefaction and devotion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">In his speech at the conference entitled &#8220;Extremism and its negative impact on the future of Arab cultural heritage&#8221; held jointly by Al-Azhar and the General Secretariat of\u00a0Arab States League,on Monday morning, December 4, 2017, at Al-Azhar Conference\u00a0Center in Nasr City, His\u00a0Eminence Bishop Ermia, General Bishop and Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, stressed\u00a0that the principles of coexistence must include respect for religious diversity, intellectual pluralism and human rights\u00a0and that our religious education must include\u00a0examples of peaceful coexistence and non-superiority.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">His Eminence, Bishop Ermia, added that God wants people to\u00a0cooperate and live together in benefaction and devotion and justice.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He stressed that religions call for acceptance of others, coexistence, acquaintance and refusal to terrorize man, even if it is a joke, as in Islam. He pointed out that Jesus dealt with all religious communities, treated all people, and commended love to all.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He explained that Judaism stipulated accepting the stranger and not harassing him, stressing the need to instill love and acceptance of the other to\u00a0uplift him, and respect human beings by\u00a0acting not by words, because speaking does not achieve anything.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">It should be noted that the conference will hold on its first day workshops that will include a number of topics, including: &#8220;The components of our cultural heritage and its impact on\u00a0facing extremist ideology and consolidating the identity of the society&#8221; and &#8220;the role of official institutions and civil society organizations in facing extremism and terrorism.&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The sessions were\u00a0headed by a number of public and cultural figures, including Dr. Mostafa El-Fekki, Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Dr. Abbas Shoman, Deputy of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The conference\u00a0was attended by representatives of the countries members of the Arab States League, Arab regional and international organizations, civil society organizations concerned, diplomats and a number of foreign ambassadors.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The conference comes in line with the recommendations of the final communiqu\u00e9 issued\u00a0on the Arab Cultural Heritage Day celebration held on 26 February at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab States League.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">This conference is the first of the International Commission for\u00a0Preservation of the Historical Heritage of Humanity, which was established under the umbrella of the Secretariat by a proposal of the Arab Parliament.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5eXRcyyjeZ8\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his speech at the conference entitled &#8220;Extremism and its negative impact on the future of Arab cultural heritage&#8221; held jointly by Al-Azhar and the General Secretariat of\u00a0Arab States League,on Monday morning, December 4, 2017, at Al-Azhar Conference\u00a0Center in Nasr City, His\u00a0Eminence Bishop Ermia, General Bishop and Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, stressed\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":52919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,52,74,39],"tags":[10118,4101,4688,10116,10119,10115,5410,10117,240,10114,10111,641,10109,10110,10112,10113],"class_list":["post-52873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chairman-news","category-74","category-videos","tag-benefaction","tag-bishop-ermia","tag-conference","tag-cooperate","tag-devotion","tag-extremism-and-its-negative-impact-on-the-future-of-arab-cultural-heritage","tag-god","tag-live-together","tag---2","tag-10114","tag-10111","tag-641","tag-10109","tag-10110","tag-10112","tag-10113"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52918,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873\/revisions\/52918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}