Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, and Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, spoke at a press conference on Portraits in Faith, a traveling exhibition brought to the Vatican for the Jubilee. The exhibition includes photographs and stories of believers from different religious traditions.
Daniel Epstein, described by Vatican News as “a Jewish marketing expert and photographer who has traveled the world between work and faith,” compiled the stories over a 25-year period and also took part in the press conference.
Cardinal Koovakad said that the photographs “speak to us of a common humanity, because the ‘other’ is part of a brotherhood that unites us.” Ruffini said that the images “take us back to the origins of who we are, brothers and sisters created in the image of God. They remind us that in dialogue, in the rediscovery of others, we find the essence of our faith.”