(Peter Anderson) During this last week, there were three important inter-religious events in Rome with significant Orthodox participation in all of them. On Monday, October 4, there was the meeting Faith and Science: Towards COP26. This meeting was described in my last report. On Tuesday, October 5, there was the meeting of 19 representatives of the world’s religions in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on the subject Religions and Education: Towards a Global Compact on Education. On the next two days, there was the program, organized by the Sant’Egidio Community on the subject Religions and Cultures in Dialogue: Peoples as Brothers, Future Earth. The latter program culminated on October 7 with a prayer for peace at the Colosseum. Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew had important roles in all three meetings. Metropolitan Hilarion (Moscow Patriarchate) has significant parts in the first two meetings. Metropolitan Antony of Korsun and Western Europe represented the Moscow Patriarchate at the third event. Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury spoke at the first and third events, and Patriarch Catholicos Karekine II (primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church) spoke at the third event. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the German Federal Republic, was one of two major speakers at the closing ceremony at the Colosseum on October 7.read more