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DIMMID, Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique - Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, is a movement within the Benedictine and Cistercian order aimed to promote interfaith dialogue between monastic communiti
DIMMID was created under Rembert Weakland as part of a post–Vatican II interreligious experiment in dialogue with non-Christian religions.
The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani served as meeting space for the encounters between Buddhist and Christian monks in 1996 and 2002 organised by the DIMMID.
On the night of 26–27 March 1996, seven monks of the Trappist order from the Our Lady of the Atlas Abbey of Tibhirine near Médéa, Algeria, were kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War. They were held
Tibhirine Monastery