Congress Palace
September 6 2015 17:00
Opening Assembly
program
Chairperson
Hilde Kieboom
Community of Sant’Egidio, Belgium
Inaugural greetings
Blendi Klosi
Minister of Welfare and Youth, Albania
Filip Vujanovic
President of the Republic of Montenegro
Message from
Opening speech
Edi Rama
Prime Minister of Albania
Andrea Riccardi
Historian, Founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio
INTERVALLO MUSICALE
Message from
Sergio Mattarella
President of the Republic, Italy
Contributions
Andrea Orlando
Minister of Justice, Italy
Louis Raphaël I Sako
Cardinal, Patriarch of Babylon of Chaldeans, Iraq
Anastasios
Archbishop of Tirana and Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania
David Rosen
Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, AJC, Israel
Muhy Al-Din Afifi
Secretary General of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif Islamic Research Academy, Egypt
Sudheendra Kulkarni
Hindu, member of the “Forum for a New South Asia”, India
September 7 2015 09:30
PANEL 7 : 70 Years since Hiroshima: the Past and the Future
program
Chairperson
Maria De Giorgi
Shinmeizan Centre for Interreligious Dialogue, Japan
Contributions
Shoko Abe
Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan
Gensho Hozumi
Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Japan
Moriyasu Ito
Shinto, Meiji Jingu, Japan
Keiji Kunitomi
Religions for Peace Japan
Katherine Marshall
Georgetown University, USA
Andrea Masullo
Greenaccord, Italy
Noriaki Nagao
Representative of Tenrikyo Headquarters, Japan
September 7 2015 09:30
PANEL 5 : The Martyrs Show that Christianity is Changing
program
Chairperson
Marco Gnavi
Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Contribution
Epiphanios
Orthodox Bishop, Coptic Church, Egypt
George Frendo
Catholic Bishop, Albania
Paulo Lockmann
World Methodist Council
Armash Nalbandian
Armenian Primate of Damascus, Syria
Thomas Schirrmacher
World Evangelical Alliance
Ernest Troshani
Franciscan, witness, Albania
Serafim
Vescovo ortodosso, Patriarcato di Mosca, Bielorussia
September 7 2015 16:30
PANEL 16 : Scenarios of War: Peace is Put to the Test
program
Chairperson
Cornelio Sommaruga
Former President of the International Red Cross Committee, Switzerland
Contribution
Giulio Albanese
Editor of "Popoli e Missione", Italy
Ditmir Bushati
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Albania
Mario Giro
Community of Sant'Egidio, Italy
M'hamed Krichen
Journalist of Al-Jazeera, Tunisia
Mohammad Sammak
POLITICAL ADVISOR TO THE GRAND MUFTI OF LEBANON
Antonio Tajani
President of the European Parliament
September 7 2015 16:30
PANEL 14 : Religions and Violence
program
Chairperson
Athanasios
Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Greece
Contribution
Paul Bhatti
President of the Alliance of All Minorities in Pakistan
Alison L. Boden
Dean, University of Princeton, USA
Oded Wiener
Chief Rabbinate of Israel
Matthew Hassan Kukah
Catholic Bishop, Nigeria
Sudheendra Kulkarni
Hindu, member of the “Forum for a New South Asia”, India
Muhammad Khalid Masud
Member of the Supreme Court, Pakistan
September 8 2015 09:30
PANEL 24 : Is Dialogue Still Necessary ?
program
Chairperson
Indunil J. Kodithuwakku
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Holy See
Contributions
Roberto Catalano
Focolari Movement, Italy
Ruth Dureghello
President of the Jewish Community of Rome, Italy
Mohamad Hassan El-Amine
Islamic theologian, Lebanon
Franco Sottocornola
Interreligious Dialogue Center Shinmeizan, Japan
Vasileios
Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Church of Cyprus
Tep Vong
Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Buddhism
September 8 2015 09:30
PANEL 22 : Migrants: a Global Challenge
program