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The Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) inaugurated this morning the Interdisciplinary Congress 'The Edict of Milan: 1700 Years of Home Religious Freedom for Christians'.
The symposium, which continues during the day tomorrow and Wednesday, commemorating 1700 years of the promulgation of the Edict of Milan, which was promulgated in 313 and proclaimed religious freedom in the Roman Empire.
The opening ceremony was attended by the Vice Chancellor of University Extension, Antonio Alcaraz, the director of the Congress, Juan Ramón Carbó, and Research Professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), José Andrés-Gallego.
The Vice Chancellor of University Extension, Antonio Alcaraz, stressed that "it is the first conference to be held in the UCAM related to the historical context," and added that "especially is a historic event and multidisciplinary research, as not only going to deepen the historical fact of the Edict of Milan, but also in theology, law, art, etc.. giving it a new perspective of great importance. "
According to the director of the event, Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies UCAM, Juan Ramón Carbó, the Edict of Milan "was the beginning of religious freedom for all Christians, the end of the persecutions, and in fact the concept of freedom religious not really exist until the time and marks a new status in the relationship between the Christian religion and the state, a fact that has marked Western culture since the time of the Roman Empire to the present day. "
Meanwhile, Research Professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), José Andrés-Gallego, who has offered the keynote address, said that "the Emperor Constantine by the Edict of Milan recognized that there was a reality visible, shared by some of the Romans, it was the Christian faith and membership in the Church, and also recognized as a positive for society "historic.
Source: UCAM
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