It is with great pleasure that our colleagues, friends and I personally,  welcome you today at the Cultural Center of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, which honored us to host our today’s event, and for this we are very grateful to the members of the Board of Directors.

The Exelixis Institute of Evolution is a non-profit organization operating at various levels with significant action in the field of immigrants, who are in our country and whose main objective is the education of young immigrants in cultural, historical, religious, social and political conditions in order to act as multipliers in their communities and to play a prominent role in the developments with sufficient knowledge and experience from the increasingly multicultural reality the means in which they are invited to live, act and contribute fruitfully and constructively to the benefit of all.

In this context, we organized today’s Workshop entitled Seeking ways of coexistence with the different religions in order to inform, to reflect, to sensitize and ultimately to act as much as possible on issues of religious diversity, on the problems that arise from it and to highlight the positive which a fertile and creative coexistence can offer to Greece.

More specifically, the purpose of the Workshop is to explore the problems, challenges and possible solutions that arise from the co-existence of religious different in a metropolitan area, such as Athens, with the weaknesses and opportunities it offers. The main focus, is on the points that facilitate the coexistence of religions as they arise from their teaching.

The structure of the Workshop is based on two axes: a) Suggestions (15 to 20 minutes) of specialists, who through their expertise will delimit and develop academically the context of problems: problems, challenges, solutions, of religiously different. b) Suggestions (15-20 minutes) of religious officers from the main heterotethical and heterodox communities that exist and actively operate in our country within the framework of the above problem.

The talks will be coordinated by Alexander Vellios and Daniel Esdra.

Thank you very much for your participation, which gives us the courage to continue our efforts despite all the difficulties we face every day.