At the invitation of His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Institute for Religious Studies, the General Coordinator of Masarat participated in the conference “Christians in the Arab East and Aspirations for Unity and Enlightenment,” organized by the Royal Institute.
Saloum presented a vision through the experience of Masarat that calls for thinking in new and innovative ways within what he termed the “third option” that Christians offer to the peoples of the East. He called for the adoption of new diplomacies within the framework of religious dialogue and the formulation of a new approach to the theory of recognition and the philosophy of justice.
The conference witnessed the participation of several bishops and patriarchs, including Theophilus III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem for the Greek Orthodox, Ignatius Aphrem II, the Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox, Aram I, the Patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox of Cilicia, Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, the Patriarch of the Syrian Catholics, and Raphael Bedros XXI, the Patriarch of the Armenian Catholics. Also present were the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East for the Greek Orthodox and Bishop Sani Azar, head of the Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Lands, among others.
