Yesterday I was watching a programme on the confirmation process of a group of children in the Bordeaux area in France, on french catholic tv station KTO. It followed the preparations for their confirmation over a year. Just before their confirmation, the children meet over a lunch and prayers and discussion with children from the muslim and jewish faiths. They meet in turns every year at their place of worship and this year that was in a mosque. Each group prepared a presentation of a figure important to their faith and finally over lunch discussed their differences and similarities. What a wonderful iniative for children to learn tolerance and openmindedness, and above all not to be afraid of the different faiths!
It reminded me of a children's book by Peter Spier, called" People", which I think adults would be advised to read as well. It shows through some wonderful illustrations, that diversity is wonderful, we all have different colours, noses, shapes etc, but without diversity life would be monotonous!
