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Today Friday afternoon, senior representatives of Islam, Judaism and Christian churches gather in front of the Austrian embassy in Berlin for a joint demonstration of solidarity. An interreligious prayer is planned.
The Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) is taking the Islamist terrorist acts of recent days, most recently the attack in Vienna, as an occasion for a demonstration for peace.
The president of the ZMD, Aiman Mazyek, took the initiative and invited the commemorative event, which will take place at 3:00 p.m. in front of the Austrian embassy in Berlin-Tiergarten. After an interfaith prayer, representatives of various religions will give short speeches to remember the victims and offer their condolences to their families.
In addition to Mazyek, the president of the Rabbinical General Conference of Germany, Rabbi Andreas Nachama, as well as the bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesia Upper Lusatia, Christian Stäblein, and the Archbishop of the Catholic Church of Berlin, Heiner will speak. Koch.
In the invitation, Mazyek emphasized that it was about peaceful coexistence for all people, regardless of ethnicity and beliefs, as well as against terrorism and extremism.
Shortly after the attack in Vienna, Berliners deposited numerous flowers, candles and greeting cards in memory of the victims of terrorism at the embassy headquarters at the corner of Tiergartenstrasse and Stauffenbergstrasse.
