Making the Case for Interfaith Dialogue
How can we bring about peace through dialogue and bridge-building? As part of an undergraduate course taught by Notre Dame Jerusalem faculty at the university’s academic center in Rome, Avraham Burg sat down with Margaret Karram, president of the Focolare Movement, an international Catholic organization dedicated to interfaith and ecumenical dialogue. Hear Karram discuss what it was like to grow up in the mixed city of Haifa, and her later experience as a Palestinian Christian studying in an American Jewish University. Karram goes on to reveal the story of the Focolare Movement and her work towards communion and tolerance.
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How can we bring about peace through dialogue and bridge-building? As part of an undergraduate course taught by Notre Dame Jerusalem faculty at the university’s academic center in Rome, Avraham Burg sat down with Margaret Karram, president of the Focolare Movement, an international Catholic organization dedicated to interfaith and ecumenical dialogue. Hear Karram discuss what it was like to grow up in the mixed city of Haifa, and her later experience as a Palestinian Christian studying in an American Jewish University. Karram goes on to reveal the story of the Focolare Movement and her work towards communion and tolerance.
MoreMeet the Speaker: Margaret Karram
Margaret Karram was elected President of the Focolare Movement in January 2021. Born in Haifa, Israel in 1962 into a Palestinian Catholic family, at the age of fourteen she encountered the Focolare spirituality. Her commitment to dialogue led her to the United States, where she graduated from the American Jewish University. In 2002 she became co-responsible for the Focolare community in the Holy Land. In 2013 she received the Mount Zion Award for Reconciliation. In 2014 she was elected member of the General Council of the Focolare Movement. In 2016 she was awarded the St. Rita International Prize for promoting dialogue among Christians, Jews, Muslims, Israelis, and Palestinians.