Rome (NEV / CS10), February 2, 2019 – The President of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), Pastor Luca Maria Negro, on the occasion of the Memorial Day sent a letter to the President of the Union of Jewish Communities (UCEI) , Noemi Di Segni, in which he expressed the Federation’s deep spiritual closeness and solidarity.
Negro remembered the shared experience of Jewish and Protestant communities, who suffered discrimination and persecution in the past, even if in different times and ways. But the concern is entirely directed to the present, “to the resurgence of intimidating and destroying acts of neo-fascist style that recall those persecutions”. The appeal is “to the vigilance and to everyone’s commitment”.
“The Memory, to which we refer each year on the 27 of January – continued Pastor Negro -, the invitation not to forget, must find its implementation not only in a general prohibition to oblivion but in the pursuit and the constant affirmation of the truth, as instruments to build a critical culture, free from rhetoric and rituals”.
FCEI’s president also recalled Giovanni Gervasoni, a primary school teacher, a political dissident, a member of the Methodist Church, a protagonist of the dark years of persecution, deported and murdered in Dachau. The city of Venice, on January 28, dedicated a stumbling block to his memory.
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