10. – 12. SEPTEMBER 2017
PROGRAMME RELIGIONS AND CULTURES IN DIALOGUE
COMMUNITY OF SANT‘EGIDIO DIOCESE OF MÜNSTER | DIOCESE OF OSNABRÜCK 10. – 12. SEPTEMBER 2017
PROGRAMME SEPTEMBER 10TH | SUNDAY | 4.15 pm MÜNSTER
OPENING ASSEMBLY
PATHS OF PEACE RELIGIONS AND CULTURES IN DIALOGUE
Messe und Congress Centrum Halle Münsterland Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Japanese, Russian, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Angelika Wagner Community of Sant’Egidio, Germany
WELCOME GREETINGS Felix Genn Bishop of Münster Markus Lewe Mayor of Münster MESSAGE of His Holiness Pope Francis
KEY-NOTE SPEECHES Andrea Riccardi Founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany Mahamadou Issoufou President of the Republic of Niger Antonio Tajani President of the European Parliament Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyeb Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Egypt
MUSIC
CONTRIBUTION Jeffrey D. Sachs Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, USA
WITNESS FROM BARCELONA Alba Ruiz de Andrés Community of Sant’Egidio, Spain
INTERVENTIONS John X Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Avichai Apel Rabbi of Frankfurt, Germany Kosho Niwano President of Rissho Kosei Kai Buddhism, Japan
SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 1 EUROPE FACE THE TEST OF ITS FUTURE
Rathaus Münster Rathausfestsaal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French
CHAIRPERSON Hilde Kieboom Vice-president of the Community of Sant’Egidio, Belgium
CONTRIBUTIONS Athanasios Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Church of Greece Pier Ferdinando Casini President of the Senate Foreign Affairs Commission, Italy Jean-Dominique Durand Deputy Mayor of Lyon, France Agostino Giovagnoli Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy Albert Guigui Chief Rabbi of Brussels, Belgium Luca Jahier European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Italy Hans-Gert Pöttering Former President of the European Parliament, Germany SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 2 ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Bischöfliches Priesterseminar Borromaeum Aula Working Languages: Italian, German, English, Japanese
CHAIRPERSON Matthias Kopp Speaker of the German Bishops’ Conference
CONTRIBUTIONS Katsuji Iwahashi Jinja Honcho Shintoism, Japan Sudheendra Kulkarni Hindu, Observer Research Foundation, India Manfred Rekowski Evangelical Church, Germany Jeffrey D. Sachs Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, USA Leopoldo Sandonà Responsible of the Biblical Festival, Italy Ambrogio Spreafico Catholic Bishop, Italy SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 3 ECONOMY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Bezirksregierung Münster Freiherr-vom-Stein-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Theo Paul General Vicar of Osnabrück
CONTRIBUTIONS Bernhard Felmberg Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany El Mostafa Higazy NASAQ Foundation, Egypt Patrick Pouyanné PDG of Total, France David Rosen Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, AJC, Israel Thomas Sternberg President of the Central Committee of German Catholics Laurent Ulrich Catholic Archbishop, France SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 4 AT THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM
Bischöfliches Priesterseminar Borromaeum Kardinal-von-Galen-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Jean-Pierre Denis “La Vie”, France
CONTRIBUTIONS Mario Giro Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy Aleksandra Kania Sociologist, Poland M’hamed Krichen “Al-Jazeera”, Tunisia Tarek Mitri American University of Beyrouth, Lebanon Frédéric Van Leeuw Federal Prosecutor of the Kingdom of Belgium SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 5 WAR IS ALWAYS A “USELESS MASSACRE”
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Hörsaal JO 1 Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Japanese, Russian
CHAIRPERSON Matteo Zuppi Catholic Archbishop, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS Anatolij Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Ukrainian Chuch, Moscow Patriarchate Daniel Deckers “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Germany Butros Marayati Archbishop of Alep of the Catholic Armenians, Syria Parfait Onanga-Anyanga UN Special Representative for the Central African Republic Rita Prigmore Sinta woman, survived at Porrajmos, Germany Doyu Toda President of the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan Tep Vong Supreme Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 6 PRAYER, ILLNESS, HEALING
Franz-Hitze-Haus Saal 1 Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Marco Gnavi Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS Andrej Orthodox Bishop, Serbian Church Filipos Orthodox Archbishop, Tewahedo Ethiopian Church Karl Hinrich Manzke Lutheran Bishop, Germany Abulhasan Navvab President of the University of Religions, Iran Avraham Itzhak Radbil Rabbi, Germany Thomas Schirrmacher World Evangelical Alliance SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 7 TO DEFEND CHILDREN IS TO BUILD PEACE
Franz-Hitze-Haus Oscar- Romero-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, Kurdish
CHAIRPERSON Gotthard Kleine Director of Kindermissionswerk, Germany
CONTRIBUTIONS Leyla Ferman Yazidi Community, Turkey Avraham Giesser Rabbi, Israel Adriana Gulotta Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy Pshtiwan Sadiq Abdullah Khoshnaw Minister of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government Gregorio Rosa Chavez Cardinal, auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador Syuhud Sahudi Marsudi President of the Nahdlatul Ulama Council, Indonesia SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 9.30 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 8 CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM, PAST AND PRESENT
Petrikirche
Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Russian
CHAIRPERSON Nikola Eterovic Catholic Achbishop, Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, Holy See
CONTRIBUTIONS Ian Campbell University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Jean-François Colosimo Editor-in-Chief of the Editions du Cerf, France Epiphanios Orthodox Bishop, Coptic Church Gennadij Orthodox Bishop, Moscow Patriarchate Hovakim Manukyan Armenian Orthodox Bishop, Primate of the United Kingdom Karl-Adolf Schneider Witness, Germany Ernest Simoni Cardinal, Albania SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 10.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
YOUTH FORUM FRIENDSHIP OUT OF RUINS RELIGIONS ON THE PATHS OF PEACE
Aula am Aasee
CONTRIBUTIONS Mustafa Ceric President of the World Bosniak Congress, Bosnia and Herzegovina Alba Ruiz de Andrés Community of Sant’Egidio, Spain Harutiun Selimian President of the Armenian-Evangelical Community of Syria SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 9 SAVING, WELCOMING AND INTEGRATING MIGRANTS
Rathaus Münster Rathausfestsaal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Spanish
CHAIRPERSON Jean Claude Petit Journalist-writer, France
CONTRIBUTIONS Shamim Mohammad Afzal General Director of the Islamic Foundation of Bangladesh Eugenio Bernardini Moderator of the Waldensian Table, Italy Regina Catrambone Co-Founder and Director of MOAS, Italy Ursula Kalb Community of Sant’Egidio, Germany José Alejandro Solalinde Guerra Catholic priest, Director of “Hermanos en camino”, Mexico Oded Wiener Former Director General of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 10 RELIGIONS CHALLENGE THEMSELVES ON NONVIOLENCE
Bischöfliches Priesterseminar Borromaeum Aula Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Japanese, Urdu
CHAIRPERSON Markus Dröge Evangelical Bishop, Germany
CONTRIBUTIONS Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad Grand Imam of the Lahore Mosque, Pakistan Shmuel Aharon Brodman Rabbi, Germany Sohan Lal Gandhi Jainism, India Nedim Gürsel Writer, Turkey Shoten Minegishi Soto Zen Buddhism, Japan Mohammad Sammak Special Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Lebanon Serafim Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Romanian Patriarchate SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 11 THE AGES OF HUMAN LIFE
Bezirksregierung Münster Freiherr-vom-Stein-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, Japanese, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Felix Genn Bishop of Münster
CONTRIBUTIONS Stephen Conway Anglican Bishop, United Kingdom Mohamad Hassan El-Amine Islamic theologian, Lebanon Joachim Hake Director of the Catholic Academy of Berlin, Germany Ioan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Romanian Patriarchate Manfred Lütz Primary Physician of the Alexianer Hospital in Cologne, Germany Masaharu Matsuda Tenrikyo, Japan Vincenzo Paglia Catholic Archbishop, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Holy See SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 12 MAKING PEACE
Bischöfliches Priesterseminar Borromaeum Kardinal-von-Galen-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Antonio Ferrari “Corriere della Sera”, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS Mohammed Esslimani Islamic theologian, Egypt Mauro Garofalo Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy Abdulrahman Sedeeq Kareem Islamic theologian, Kurdistan Region, Iraq Jean Pierre Kwambamba Masi Catholic Bishop, Democratic Republic of Congo Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim Chairperson of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Mindanao, Philippines Dieudonné Nzapalainga Cardinal, President of the Central African Bishops’ Conference Sharon Rosen Global Director of Religious Engagement, Search For Common Ground, Israel SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 13 MOVING TOWARDS DISARMAMENT IN A TIME OF CONFLICTS
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Hörsaal JO 1 Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French
CHAIRPERSON Jean-Pierre Denis “La Vie”, France
CONTRIBUTIONS Emmanuel Dupuy President of the “Institut Prospective et Sécurité en Europe”, France Enzo Fortunato Sacred Convent of Assisi, Italy Martin Heimbucher Evangelical-Reformed Church, Germany Martin Leiner Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, Germany Katherine Marshall Director of the “World Faiths Development Dialogue”, USA Cornelio Sommaruga Former Chairman of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland Megumi Wada WCRP Japan SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 14 LIVING TOGETHER
Franz-Hitze-Haus Saal 1 Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Kurdish, Chinese
CHAIRPERSON Johan Jozef Bonny Catholic Bishop, Belgium
CONTRIBUTIONS Biyanto University of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia Pshtiwan Sadiq Abdullah Khoshnaw Minister of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government Faisal Bin Muaammar Secretary General of KAICIID, Saudi Arabia Polycarpus Orthodox Archbishop, Syrian Church Guirguis Ibrahim Saleh Coptic Orthodox Intellectual, Egypt Michel Santier Catholic Bishop, France Bin Shen Catholic Bishop, People’s Republic of China SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 15 MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN DIALOGUE ON PEACE
Franz-Hitze-Haus Oscar-Romero-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Vittorio Ianari Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS Qays Al Mubarak King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia Ahmed Saud Al-Siyabi Directorate of the Grand Mufti of Oman Philippe Barbarin Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon, France Mustafa Ceric President of the World Bosniak Congress, Bosnia and Herzegovina Joan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Autocephalous Church of Albania Klaus Krämer President of “Missio Aachen”, Germany Orlando Beltran Quevedo Cardinal, Archbishop of Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines SEPTEMBER 11TH | MONDAY | 4.30 pm MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 16 CHRISTIANS AND PEACE
Petrikirche
Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French
CHAIRPERSON Heinrich Mussinghoff Catholic Bishop, Germany
CONTRIBUTIONS John X Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Iosif Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Romanian Patriarchate Paulo Lockmann World Methodist Council, Brazil Jean Paul Messina Catholic University of Central Africa (CUCA), Cameroon Jean-Pierre Ricard Cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France Gregorio Rosa Chavez Cardinal, auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador Anders Wejryd Co-President of the World Council of Churches, Sweden SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 17 NEW RESPONSES TO MIGRATION
Rathaus Münster Rathausfestsaal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French,
CHAIRPERSON Crescenzio Sepe Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS U Aye Lwin Islamic Center, Rohingya representative, Myanmar François Clavairoly President of the Protestant Federation of France Ulrich Möller Evangelical Church, Germany Mario Morcone Prefect, Ministry of the Interior, Italy Daniela Pompei Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 18 THE SPIRIT OF ASSISI: A PROPHECY FOR OUR TIME
Bischöfliches Priesterseminar Borromaeum Aula Working Languages: Italian, German, English
CHAIRPERSON Alberto Quattrucci Secretary General of Peoples and Religions, Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS Homi Dhalla Zoroastrianism, India Jaron Engelmayer Rabbi, Israel Ole Christian Maelen Kvarme Lutheran Bishop, Norway Felix Anthony Machado Catholic Archbishop, India Muhammad Khalid Masud Supreme Court, Pakistan Lluís Martínez Sistach Cardinal, Spain Didi Talwalkar Leader of the “Swadhyaya” Movement, India SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 19 REBUILDING IRAQ
Bezirksregierung Münster Freiherr-vom-Stein-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Khadija Bengana “Al Jazeera”, Qatar
CONTRIBUTIONS Jawad Al-Khoei Al-Khoei Institute, Iraq Abdulwahhab Ahmed Al-Taha Al-Sammaraee Fiqh Council of Senior Scholars, Iraq Nikodemos Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Syrian Church Breen Tahsin Yazidi Community, Iraq SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 20 EUROPE AND AFRICA MOVING TOWARDS A SHARED FUTURE
Bischöfliches Priesterseminar Borromaeum Kardinal-von-Galen-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French
CHAIRPERSON Mario Giro Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS Ahmed Abbadi Muhammadiyyah Association for Scholars, Morocco Paola Germano Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy Hermann Gröhe Minister of Health, Germany Venance Konan Writer, “Fraternité Matin”, Côte-d’Ivoire Jean Mbarga Catholic Archbishop, Cameroon Philippe Ouedraogo Cardinal, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 21 TUNISIA, DEMOCRACY AND THE EXPECTATIONS OF SOCIETY
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Hörsaal JO 1 Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French, Arabic
CHAIRPERSON Tarek Mitri American University of Beyrouth, Lebanon
CONTRIBUTIONS Majed Hamzaoui Free University of Belgium, Tunisia Slaheddine Jourchi Journalist and Human Rights activist, Tunisia M’hamed Krichen “Al-Jazeera”, Tunisia Abdelfattah Mourou First Vice-President of the Parliament, Tunisia SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 22 HEALTH, A HUMAN RIGHT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Franz-Hitze-Haus Saal 1 Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French
CHAIRPERSON Mario Marazziti President of the House of Representatives Commission for Social Affairs, Italy
CONTRIBUTIONS Ulrich Heide German AIDS Foundation, Germany Jean Paul Messina Catholic University of Central Africa (CUCA), Cameroon Leonardo Palombi Responsible of the DREAM Project, Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy Jacques Pellet International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), France Stefan Zekorn Catholic Bishop, Germany SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 23 RELIGIONS IN ASIA: THE DIGNITY OF LIFE IN FACE OF THE GLOBAL MARKET
Franz-Hitze-Haus Oscar-Romero-Saal Working Languages: Italian, German, English, Japanese
CHAIRPERSON Indunil J. Kodithuwakku Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Holy See
CONTRIBUTIONS Maria De Giorgi Shinmeizan Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Japan Itsuki Hiraoka Oomoto, Japan Gensho Hozumi Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Japan Moriyasu Ito Meiji Jingu Shintoism, Japan Tejkaran Jain Jainism, India Ryoko Nishioka Advisor to the Patriarch of Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan Mohinder Singh Sikh University of Punjab Studies, India Din Syamsuddin President of the Ulema Council, Indonesia SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 9.00 am MÜNSTER | HALLS IN THE CITY CENTER
PANEL 24 500 YEARS AFTER THE REFORMATION: THE WORD OF GOD AND THE LIFE OF CHRISTIANS
Petrikirche
Working Languages: Italian, German, English, French
CHAIRPERSON Christoph Hegge Catholic Bishop, Germany
CONTRIBUTIONS Frère Alois Prior of the Community of Taizé, France Chris Ferguson World Communion of Reformed Churches, Canada Walter Kasper Cardinal, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, Holy See Jürgen Johannesdotter Lutheran Bishop, Germany Armand Puig Catholic theologian, Spain Gerhard Ulrich Lutheran Bishop, President of VELKD, Germany Munib Younan World Lutheran Federation SEPTEMBER 12TH | TUESDAY | 10.00 am OSNABRÜCK
YOUTH FORUM PEACE ON THE WAY LIVING TOGETHER IN THE TIME OF GLOBALISATION
University of Osnabrück Building 01, Room E01/02, Kolpingstrasse 7
CONTRIBUTIONS José Alejandro Solalinde Guerra Catholic priest, Director of “Hermanos en camino”, Mexico Angelika Wagner Community of Sant’Egidio, Germany SEPTEMBER 12TH, TUESDAY | 4.30 pm OSNABRÜCK | OLD TOWN CENTER
5.00 PM PRAYER FOR PEACE in various locations, according to the different religious traditions
6.30 PM PEACE PROCESSION from the prayer locations, in procession towards Marktplatz
7.00 PM FINAL CEREMONY Marktplatz
Testimonies
Franz-Josef Bode Bishop of Osnabrück Andrea Riccardi Founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio
Proclamation and delivery of the Appeal for Peace 2017
Lighting of the candelabras, signing of the Appeal and exchange of a sign of Peace Impressum Publisher: Gemeinschaft Sant’Egidio Piazza Sant‘Egidio, 3 - 00153 - Rom, Italien Responsible: Alberto Quattrucci Coordination: Fabian Sandkühler, Bistum Osnabrück Realisation: Dom Medien GmbH, Osnabrück Printing: Levien-Druck, Osnabrück
RELIGIONS AND CULTURES IN DIALOGUE