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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II decree on religious freedom, Dignitatis humanae, the Institut pour l’étude des religions et le dialogue interreligieux and the Centre d’études pastorales comparées of the Theology Faculty of the University of Fribourg devoted the 7th “bilingual forum” on “Fribourg, the Church in the World”, to the developments in the implementation of religious freedom in the German- and French-speaking worlds, in Palestine and elsewhere. It is only by means of a multifaceted correlation between faith and reason that various religious and state constitutional traditions can hope effectively to adopt the principle of religious freedom, which is essential for living together in contemporary societies and for world peace.