Christians vs. Muslims in a cricket match
The cricket club of San Pedro del Vaticano will play on
October 17 against a Muslim team in an initiative of the Pontifical Council of
the Vatican Culture that seeks to tear down walls and build bridges between
religions, said Thursday in a statement. It is a project that seeks to follow
the call that Pope Francis has made on several occasions when he has defended
reconciliation, peace, dialogue and fraternal coexistence, and also the need to
"build bridges" and "break walls", as he pointed out in his
recent trip to Cuba and the United States.
The October 17 match between the Vatican cricket team and
the Muslim team is part of a championship to be held in Rome in October and will
involve six teams - the Vatican club, four English and another from Argentina -
he explained. the Pontifical Council for Culture. The matches will be played at
the historic Roman sports facility Capannelle and will begin on Friday with the
crossing between the Vatican and an English group, the Highgate, from London.
It will be "a month of cultural, ecumenical and interreligious
exchange" thanks to these sporting events, but not only, because other
activities will also be organized with these teams in the Vatican, "from a
Mass presided over by Pope Francis in the Basilica of Saint Peter , until a
visit to the Museums and the Sistine Chapel ". The San Pedro cricket club
of the Vatican was founded on October 22, 2013 and is composed exclusively of
priests, deacons and seminarians who study at the Pontifical Institute based in
the capital, according to the note sent to the media.

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