The responsibility of having neglected and forgotten the other, his incidents and his historical situation is usually attributed to distance.

The reciprocity of this forgetfulness has strengthened the mistaken conviction of an impossibility of knowing each other and of letting others understand the depth of one’s difficulties, the concreteness of one’s experience. There is, instead, a way of sharing which is much stronger of the one that involves direct acquaintance: it is called “prayer”, that universal concept of spiritual communion and meeting which is not only to be understood as a reality concerning the inter-religious dimension.

There is a way to live personal and collective experience, suffering and reality, which makes us more able of understanding others and being close to them, overcoming any distance, whether geographical, cultural, historical, social or experiential: it is sometimes a silent process, imperceptible and experienced in intimacy, which makes us more sensitive and receptive to the emotional difficulty of others, or it sometimes takes the heart, words and prayers, making its voice reach everywhere and everyone, not letting them feel alone and forgotten.

Uniting the Caucasus to the world and to God through words is the first step to be taken to avoid oblivion.

It is for this reason that we ask you to send us your prayer ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ): we will publish your prayer and we will translate it to the official languages of the website. First of all we ask you to pray, where you want, how you want and when you want. The strength of prayer stands in secrecy! Then you can invite friends to do it with you or incite people in a close place of prayer. Do you know a monastery and you’ve never been there?  It’s your chance to knock on their door and ask! Are you a member of the Clergy? Make your community active with a daily prayer! Decide how you want to express your closeness to the Caucasus and then tell us about your choice. A silent chain of spiritual communion has started!

Regardless of how your prayer is unfolded: if using words, thought, music or gestures, if it belongs to any confession or if it is secular or even atheist, let the Caucasus know that you can also be close to its peoples. Because to understand each other is possible even when the disproportion between faced difficulties and known realities can seem overwhelming: a universal understanding involving the soul exists and makes us all responsible and involved in what others experience and live.