Europe/Italy – Lecture of Olivier Roy at Gregorian College: “Faith, World Politics and Tradition Disaster”
ROME (Agenzia Fides) – As Israel’s assault on Iran throws the shadow of a worldwide conflict on the world, Rome is contemplating hyperlinks between “faith, world politics and the disaster of tradition”. That is the title of the studying that Professor Olivier Roy, of Robert Schuman Middle for Superior Research (European College Institute), will maintain Monday afternoon, June 16, as a part of Rome’s summer season seminars for faith and politics 2025.
A political and Islamist scientist, writer of a number of books on Iran, Islam and Asian politics, Professor Roy led the OSCE mission (the Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe) for Tajikistan (1994) and the KB workplace for the Afghanist coordinator (1988).
The seminar will happen within the F007 room of Palazzo Frascara at Papora Gregorian College (Piazza della Pilotta three), from 5.00 to 7pm
Professor Roy’s lecture will likely be preceded by the greetings by Father Pino di Luccio SJ, president of Collegegium Most, and Archbishop Samuele Sangalli, Assistant Secretary of Dicastery for Evangelization and Coordinator of Scuola Sindes.
Professor Michael Diessen, from John Cabot College, director of the summer season seminar of world faith and politics, and Dr. Antonella Piccinin (College of Notre Dame and Pontifical Gregorian College) can even take part within the dialog.
The lecture is a part of the sequence of seminars, public occasions and workshops organized as a part of the 2025 publication of Rome’s summer season seminars on world faith and politics.
Rome’s summer season seminars are within the two-week program geared toward graduating college students, students and professionals within the relationship between faith and world politics, who purpose to make use of as a lot non secular sources and geopolitical horizon related to the historical past and current of town of Rome. (GV) (Agenzia Fides, 6/14/2025)
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