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Original article published in Yahoo! on 01/24/2015
Speaking at an event organized by the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamist Studies, the Pope underlined the importance of religious understanding, noting that the most powerful tool for combating religious violence is to promote understanding and dispel stereotypes. In his address, he said, “The most effective antidote to every form of violence is education about discovering and accepting difference as richness and fertileness.”