H.E. Monsignor Giuseppe Baturi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari and Secretary General of the Italian Episcopal Conference. Introducing Bernhard Scholz, President of the Fondazione Meeting per l’amicizia fra i popoli ETS. 

This year’s Meeting aims to rediscover friendship, its origin, its creative strength, and the good that can arise from it for everyone. Friendship has always been considered one of the highest expressions of human relationships, where trust, support, and love become mutual. In the Christian experience, the relationship with God himself takes the form of an “inexhaustible friendship” that has the vocation to become a catalyst for more humane relationships in an increasingly fragmented society and a prophecy for peace in a world marked by violence and wars.