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Faith and cultural diplomacy, towards a jubilee Vatican Library

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Faith and cultural diplomacy, towards a jubilee Vatican Library

In view of the extraordinary event of the Jubilee Year 2025, the initiatives of the Pontifical Apostolic Library of the Holy See were presented on Thursday at the Pontifical Press Office.

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Vatican City, Friday, November 29, 2024 (REI, Vatican Radio): The initiatives of the Pontifical Apostolic Library in the Vatican with a view to the extraordinary event of the Jubilee Year 2025 were presented this Thursday to the Pontifical Press Office.

It was highlighted that with conferences and participation in international events such as the Osaka Expo and the Jeddah Biennial of Islamic Art, the Vatican Library is reinforced as a constant laboratory of projects and initiatives for the development of a new humanism and dialogue.

towards a new humanity

The preface to the Jubilee Year programs states that this Holy Year is a unique opportunity to celebrate, with faith, the reconciling role of cultural diplomacy, building bridges and promoting dialogue, and this is represented by the Vatican Library, which is a custodian of a comprehensive and unique heritage that spans different eras and civilizations.

Almost five centuries after its founding, the Vatican Library, founded by Pope Nicholas V in 1451, preserves the manifesto of its first anniversary in 1300 and continues to open to the world through a collective and collaborative vision, building relationships. This is confirmed by the events planned for the coming months and which were published in the Pontifical Press Office on November 28 at the Vatican Apostolic Meeting for the development of a new humanism. It was presented to the press under the title “Library.”

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Archbishop Vincenzo Zanni, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, described to the delegates some of the main initiatives, stating that by 2025, the Vatican Apostolic Library will be transformed into “a constant laboratory of projects and initiatives, of exchanges with interlocutors international”. and sees itself as “a lively place for debate”, a place that offers “intense editorial activity” and “consummate professional contexts”. Claims “active presence” He also confirmed training at the School of Library Science” and “participation in exhibition activities around the world.”

The interlocutors were confirmed that the biennial exhibition “The Art of Numbers” in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, the conversations with the leaders of Islam during the visits of Pope Francis, the signing of the cultural cooperation agreement and scientific and the Vatican Library in Osaka, Japan. organizes exhibitions and programs to promote a new humanism for dialogue between people, cultures, religions and generations, and for the development of technologies put at the service of integral human, personal and social development. It shows the fundamental dimension of.

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