Programme of Assisi 2016
PROGRAMME
10:30
Eucharistic Celebration
In the presence of the representatives of the Christian Churches and Ecclesial Communities
16:30
Alla presenza di
Sergio Mattarella
President of the Republic, Italy
Chairperson
Hilde Kieboom
Community of Sant’Egidio, Belgium
Inaugural greetings
Domenico Sorrentino
Archbishop of Assisi
Catiuscia Marini
President of the Umbria Region
Henri de Luxembourg
Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Reports
Andrea Riccardi
Historian, Founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio
Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
INTERVALLO MUSICALE
Contribution
Zygmunt Bauman
Sociologist and philosopher, Poland
Contributions
Faustin-Archange Touadéra
President of the Central African Republic
Baleka Mbete
Chairperson of the National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa
Witnesses
Dominique Lebrun
Archbishop of Rouen, France
Domenico Pompili
Bishop of Rieti, Italy
César Alierta
“Profuturo”, Spain
Contributions
Avraham Steinberg
Rabbi, Israel
Mohammad Sammak
Political Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Lebanon
Nichiko Niwano
President of Rissho Kosei-kai Buddhism, Japan
09:30
Chairperson
Mario Giro
Essayist, Community of Sant'Egidio, ltaly
Contributions
Ignatius Ayau Kaigama
Catholic Archbishop, Nigeria
Venance Konan
Writer, Director of "Fraternité Matin", Côte-d'Ivoire
Baleka Mbete
Chairperson of the National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa
Penda Mbow
Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal
Evariste Ngoyagoye
Catholic Archbishop, Burundi
09:00
Chairperson
Stefano Zamagni
Economist, Italy
Contributions
César Alierta
“Profuturo”, Spain
Daniele Donati
Head of FAO Emergency Response Team
Philippe Herzog
Economist, Confrontations Europe, France
Katherine Marshall
Vice-President, G20 Interfaith Association, USA
Patrick Pouyanné
President Generai Director, Tota/ Énergies SE, France
Olav Fykse Tveit
Presiding Bishop of the Conference of Bishops of Norway
09:30
Chairperson
Domenico Sorrentino
Archbishop of Assisi
Contributions
Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot
Cardinal, President of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, Holy See
Mohammed Esslimani
Theologian, Saudi Arabia
Shoten Minegishi
Bouddhisme Soto Zen, Japon
Vincenzo Paglia
Catholic Archbishop, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Holy See
Abraham Skorka
Rabbi, Argentina
Alberto Quattrucci
Community of Sant'Egidio, Italy
09:30
Chairperson
Luciano Fontana
Editor of “Corriere della Sera”, Italy
Contributions
Claudio Descalzi
CEO of Eni, Italy
Gian Luca Galletti
Minister of Environment, Italy
Mauro Gambetti
Custodian of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, Italy
Carlo Montalbetti
General Director of Comieco, Italy
Mauro Moretti
CEO of Leonardo, Italy
Tiziano Onesti
President of Trenitalia, Italy
Carlo Tamburi
Director of ENEL-Italia
09:30
Chairperson
David Rosen
Rabbi, Special Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House (AFH) in Abu Dhabi, Israel
Contributions
Alfonso Arbib
Chief Rabbi of Milan, Italy
Athenagoras
Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Ecumenical Patriarchate
Philippe Barbarin
Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon, France
Jaron Engelmayer
Chief Rabbi of Vienna, Austria
Isak Haleve
Chief Rabbi of Turkey
Heinrich Mussinghoff
Catholic Bishop, Germany
09:30
Chairperson
Guillaume Goubert
Editor of “La Croix”, France
Contributions
Jean-Pierre Denis
Director of La Vie, France
Antonio Ferrari
Journalist and writer, Italy
Enzo Fortunato
World Children's Day Coordinator, HolySee
M'hamed Krichen
Principal Presenter, Al Jazeera, Tunisia
David W. Porter
Church of England
Philip Pullella
Reuters Agency
09:30
Chairperson
Roberto Catalano
Focolari Movement, Italy
Contributions
Swami Agnivesh
Hindu, India
Alison L. Boden
Dean, University of Princeton, USA
Homi Dhalla
Zoroastrianism, India
Keiji Kunitomi
Religions for Peace Japan
Felix Anthony Machado
Catholic Archbishop, India
Syuhud Sahudi Marsudi
Deputy Chief of lndonesian Ulema Council (MUI)
Mohinder Singh
Punjab Studies Sikh University, India
09:30
Chairperson
Antonio Tajani
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Contributions
Hassine Abassi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2015, Tunisia
Ayachi Hammami
Human Rights activist, Tunisia
Slaheddine Jourchi
Journalist and Human Rights activist, Tunisia
Amer Meherzi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2015, Tunisia
Abdelfattah Mourou
First Vice-President of the Parliament, Tunisia
09:30
Chairperson
Oded Wiener
Chief Rabbinate of Israel
Contributions
Mohamad Kaiwan
Representative of Religious Communities Union
Omar Kayal
Representative of Imam Union
Giacinto Boulos Marcuzzo
Catholic Bishop, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Cesare Marjieh
Religious Affairs Office, Ministry of Interior
Yacoub Salameh
Director of Religious Communities Section, Ministry of Interior
Daniel Sperber
Rabbi, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Moafaq Tarif
Representative of the Druze Community
16:30
Chairperson
Jean-Claude Petit
Journalist and Writer, France
Contributions
Zygmunt Bauman
Sociologist and philosopher, Poland
Markus Dröge
Evangelical Bishop, Germany
Daniela Pompei
Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Michel Santier
Catholic Bishop, France
Vassilis Vassilikos
Writer and historian, Greece
Antonio Maria Vegliò
Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants, Holy See
16:30
Chairperson
Olav Fykse Tveit
Presiding Bishop of the Conference of Bishops of Norway
Contributions
Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011, Yemen
Sudheendra Kulkarni
Hinduism, Founder of the Forum for a New South Asia, India
Faisal Bin Muaammar
Secretary General of KAICIID, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Khalid Masud
Member of the Supreme Court, Pakistan
Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim
Chairperson of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Mindanao, Philippines
John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan
Cardinal, Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria
Orlando Beltran Quevedo
Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cotabato, The Philippines
Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1997, USA
16:30
Chairperson
Matteo Zuppi
Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, President of the Italian Bishops' Conference
Contributions
Virgil Bercea
Greek Catholic Bishop, Romania
Albert Guigui
Chief Rabbi of Brussels, Belgium
Gensho Hozumi
Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Japan
Heikki Huttunen
General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches (KEK)
José Tolentino Mendonça
Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, Holy See
Abuna Musie
Orthodox Archbishop, Tewahedo Church of Ethiopia
17:00
Chairperson
Justin Welby
Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion
Contributions
Walter Kasper
Cardinal, Holy See
Andrea Riccardi
Historian, Founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio
Mario Giro
Essayist, Community of Sant'Egidio, ltaly
David Rosen
Rabbi, Special Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House (AFH) in Abu Dhabi, Israel
Contribution
Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
16:30
Chairperson
Jean-Arnold de Clermont
Pastor of the Reformed Church, France
Contributions
Epiphanios
Orthodox Bishop, Coptic Church, Egypt
Bernhard Felmberg
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Abdul Mukti
General Secretary of Muhammadiyyah, Indonesia
Nichiko Niwano
President of Rissho Kosei-kai Buddhism, Japan
Elisabeth Rasmusson
World Food Programme, UNO
Hubert van Beek
Global Christian Forum, Netherlands
16:30
Chairperson
Marco Tarquinio
Director of “Avvenire”, Italy
Contributions
Mauro Garofalo
Community of Sant'Egidio
Tamar Mikalli
Witness, Syria
Tarek Mitri
Rector, Saint George University of Beirut, Lebanon
Shahan Sarkissian
Orthodox Armenian Primate of Aleppo, Syria
Harutiun Selimian
President of the Evangelical Community in Syria
16:30
Chairperson
Joseph Soueif
Catholic Archbishop of the Maronite Church, Cyprus
Contributions
Mohammed Abdessalam
Judge at the Council of State, Egypt
Joseph Coutts
Cardinal, Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan
Abdelrahman El-Zahab
Intellectual, Republic of Sudan
Matthew Hassan Kukah
Catholic Bishop, Nigeria
Seyed Abolhassan Navab
President of the University of Religions, Iran
Guirguis Ibrahim Saleh
Orthodox Coptic Intellectual, Egypt
Mohammad Sammak
Political Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Lebanon
16:30
Chairperson
Agostino Giovagnoli
Historian, Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Contributions
Tokihiko Asada
Oomoto Shintoism, Japan
Sohan Lal Gandhi
Jainism, Anuvrat International, India
Yoshitaka Hatakeyama
Asian Conference on Religion and Peace
Munemichi Kurozumi
Shintoism, Japan
Doryu Mine
Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Japan
Keishi Miyamoto
Myochi-kai Buddhism, Japan
Zensuke Nakata
Tenrikyo Denomination, Japan
Koho Ogawa
Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan
16:30
Chairperson
Vittorio Ianari
Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Contributions
Jawad Al-Khoei
Secretary General of Al-Khoei Institute, Iraq
Abdulrazzaq A. Alsadi
University for Sciences and World Education, Iraq
Abdulwahhab Ahmed Al-Taha Al-Sammaraee
Spokesman of Fiqh Council of Senior Scholars, Iraq
Rebwar Audish Basa
Chiesa caldea, Iraq
Leyla Ferman
Yazidi Community, Turkey
Omar Hasan Hamad Maro Khoshnaw
Institute for Islamic Sciences of Kurdistan, Iraq
17:00
Chairperson
Stefano Orlando
Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Conferenza di
Israel Meir Lau
Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel
17:30
Chairperson
Armand Puig I Tàrrech
Theologian, Spain
Contributions
Athanasios
Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Greece
Bagrat Galstanyan
Armenian Orhodox Primate, Patriarchate of Etchmiadzin
Andon Merdani
Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Church of Albania
Armash Nalbandian
Armenian Primate of Damascus, Syria
Franco Sottocornola
Interreligious Dialogue Center Shinmeizan, Japan
Ernest Troshani
Franciscan, witness, Albania
17:30
Chairperson
Leon Lemmens
Catholic Bishop, Belgium
Contributions
Jean-François Bensahel
President of the “Union Libérale Israélite de France”
Jakob Finci
President of the Jewish Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gwenolé Jeusset
Franciscan friar, Turkey
Jean Paul Messina
Catholic University of Central Africa, Cameroon
Tritan Shehu
Member of the Albanian Parliament
Didi Talwalkar
Leader of the Swadhyaya Movement, India
08:30
Chairperson
Francesco Montenegro
Cardinal, Archbishop of Agrigento, Italy
Contributions
Eugenio Bernardini
Former Moderator of the Waldensian Table, Italy
Lucia Capuzzi
Journalis and writer, Italy
Gabriel
Orhodox Metropolitan Bishop, Church of Greece
Mario Marazziti
Journalist and Writer, Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Mario Morcone
Prefect, Councilor for Legality, Security, Immigration of the Campania Region, Italy
08:30
Chairperson
Walter Kasper
Cardinal, Holy See
Contributions
Athenagoras
Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Ecumenical Patriarchate
Gualtiero Bassetti
Cardinal, Italy
François Clavairoly
President of the Protestant Federation of France
Dionysius Jean Kawak
Orthodox Archbishop, Syrian Church
Justin Welby
Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion
Anders Wejryd
Co-President of the World Council of Churches
08:30
Chairperson
Lluis Maria Martinez Sistach
Cardinal, Spain
Contributions
Rashid al-Husseini
Al-Mustafa Foundation, Iraq
Riccardo Di Segni
Chief Rabbi of Rome, Italy
Jean Mbarga
Catholic Archbishop, Cameroun
Serafim
Orthodox Metropolitan, Patriarchate of Romania
08:30
Chairperson
Chris Ferguson
World Communion of Reformed Churches, Canada
Contributions
Jawad Al-Khoei
Secretary General of Al-Khoei Institute, Iraq
Porfirije
Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Serbian Patriarchate
Avraham Itzhak Radbil
Rabbi, Germany
Brian C. Stiller
Global Ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance
Gijun Sugitani
Chief Priest of the Myoho-in Temple, Tendai Buddhism, Japan
08:30
Chairperson
Ambrogio Spreafico
Catholic Bishop, Italy
Contributions
Emmanuel
Elder Metropolitan Bishop of Chalcedone, Ecumenical Patriarchate
Omar Ahmed Abboud
Islamic Community of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Martin Junge
Secretary General of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
Luigi Pasquali
CEO of “Telespazio”, Italy
Leopoldo Sandona'
Responsible of the Biblical Festival, Italy
Daniel Sperber
Rabbi, Bar Ilan University, Israel
08:30
Chairperson
Maite Carpio Bulgari
Journalist and Film Director, Italy
Contributions
Ioan
Orthodox Metropolitan, Patriarchate of Romania
Paulo Lockmann
World Methodist Council
Andrea Orlando
Minister of Justice, Italy
Marc Stenger
Catholic Bishop, France
Francesca Zuccari
Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
08:30
Chairperson
Jean-Dominique Durand
Historian, President of the Judeo-Christian Friendship in France
Contributions
Johan Jozef Bonny
Catholic Bishop, Belgium
Mairead Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1976, Ireland
Gerhard Ulrich
Bishop, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Germany
Erion Veliaj
Mayor of Tirana
08:30
Chairperson
Adriana Gulotta
Coordinator of Schools of Peace, Community of Sant'Egidio, ltaly
Contributions
Andreas Hipple
Advisor to the GHR Foundation, USA
Davide Faraone
Sottosegretario del Ministero dell'Istruzione
Aleksandra Kania
Sociologist, Poland
Anouar Kbibech
President of the "Conseil Français du Culte Musulman" (CFCM), Morocco
08:30
Chairperson
Din Syamsuddin
President, Center tor Dialogue and Cooperation among Civilizations, Indonesia
Contributions
Ruth Dureghello
President of the Jewish Community of Rome, Italy
Kaarlo Kalliala
Lutheran Bishop, Finland
Blendi Klosi
Minister of Welfare and Youth, Albania
Ivo Komšić
Mayor of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seraphim Kykkotis
Orthodox Archbishop of the Patriarchate of Alexandria
08:30
Chairperson
Matteo Zuppi
Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, President of the Italian Bishops' Conference
Contributions
Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad
Grand Imam of Lahore Mosque, Pakistan
Claire Ly
Witness and writer, Cambodia
Faisal Bin Muaammar
Secretary General of KAICIID, Saudi Arabia
Abdelhady Saleh
Imam of Damietta, Egypt
Israel Singer
Rabbi, USA
11:05
Accolto da
Domenico Sorrentino
Archbishop of Assisi
Catiuscia Marini
President of the Umbria Region
Raffaele Cannizzaro
Prefect of Perugia
Stefania Proietti
Mayor of Assisi, Italy
11:30
Accolto da
Mauro Gambetti
Custodian of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, Italy
Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Justin Welby
Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion
Efrem II
Patriarca Siro-Ortodosso di Antiochia
13:00
Luncheon together in the refectory of the Sacred Convent, along with a number of victims of war
Dr Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Sant’Egidio Community, will announce the 25th anniversary of the Patriarchate of His Holiness Bartholomew I
Greeting
Marco Impagliazzo
Historian, President of the Community of Sant’Egidio
15:15
Meeting with
Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Justin Welby
Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion
Efrem II
Patriarca Siro-Ortodosso di Antiochia
16:00
Meditation
Justin Welby
Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion
Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
17:15
Greetings
Domenico Sorrentino
Archbishop of Assisi
Mauro Gambetti
Custodian of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, Italy
Introduction
Andrea Riccardi
Historian, Founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio
Contributions
Tamar Mikalli
Witness, Syria
Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
David Brodman
Rabbi, Israel
Din Syamsuddin
President, Center tor Dialogue and Cooperation among Civilizations, Indonesia
Koei Morikawa
Patriarch of the Tendai Buddhism, Japan
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