| SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15 2008 |
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| 18:00 | Holy Cross Church  |
|  Catholic Eucharistic Con-celebration |
| at the presence of the Christian Churches and Denominations |
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| Presided by
Leonardo Sandri  
Cardinale, Prefetto della Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali
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| SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16 2008 |
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event
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| 09:30 | Agia Sophia Church |
| Divine Orthodox Liturgy |
| at the presence of the Christian Churches and Denominations |
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| Presided by
Chrysostomos II
Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus
Homily
Theodoros II
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa
Greeting
Andrea Riccardi
Community of Sant'Egidio
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| 16:30 | University of Cyprus – Sport Centre |
| OPENING ASSEMBLY - "The Civilization of Peace: Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue" |
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| I PARTE Chairperson
Françoise Rivière
Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO
Inaugural greetings
Dimitris Christofias
President of the Republic of Cyprus
Chrysostomos II
Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus
Keynote address
Andrea Riccardi
Community of Sant'Egidio
Contribution
Stanislaw Dziwisz
Cardinal, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland
II PARTE Chairperson
Siti Musdah Mulia
University Islam Syarief Hidayatullah of Indonesia
Contributions
Shear-Yashuv Cohen
Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel
Crescenzio Sepe
Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
Muhammad Fathi Osman
Institute for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, USA
Sri Sri Ravishankar
Fondatore dell'Art of Living Foundation, India
Coro dell'Arcivescovato di Cipro "Ioannis Damaskinos" III Parte Chairperson
Françoise Rivière
Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO
Contributions
Edward Fenech-Adami
Presidente della Repubblica di Malta
Bamir Topi
President of the Republic of Albania
Filip Vujanović
President of the Republic of Montenegro
Message from H.H. Benedict XVI
Tarcisio Bertone
Cardinale, Segretario di Stato, Santa Sede
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| MONDAY NOVEMBER 17 2008 |
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event
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Ballroom A |
| Panel 1 - Peace in the Mediterranean: Faiths, Conflicts and the Challenge of Coexistence |
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| Chairperson
Antonios Naguib
Patriarca di Alessandria, Chiesa Copto-Cattolica
Contributions
Bamir Topi
President of the Republic of Albania
David Brodman
Chief Rabbi of Savyon, Israel
Jacques Huntzinger
Ambassador, France
Crescenzio Sepe
Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
Mohammed Amine Smaili
University of Rabat, Morocco
Eleni Theocharous
Member of the House of Representatives of Cyprus
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Ballroom B |
| Panel 2 - John Paul II and the Prophecy of Peace |
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| Chairperson
Vincenzo Paglia
Catholic Bishop, Italy
Contributions
Jean Dominique Durand
University of Lyon, France
Stanislaw Dziwisz
Cardinal, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland
Mohammed Esslimani
Islamic theologian, Saudi Arabia
Jürgen Johannesdotter
Evangelical Bishop, Germany
David Rosen
Chief Rabbi, Director of the Department for Interreligious Affairs of the AJC, Israel
Serafim
Orthodox Metropolitan, Romanian Patriarchate
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| 09:30 | Hilton Ciprus - Kantara Hall |
| Panel 3 - Xenophobia and Philoxenia: Welcoming the Strangers |
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| Chairperson
Heinrich Mussinghoff
Catholic Bishop, Germany
Contributions
Edward Fenech-Adami
Presidente della Repubblica di Malta
Shear-Yashuv Cohen
Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel
John J. DeGioia
President of the Georgetown University, USA
Hassan Hanafi
Università del Cairo, Egitto
Daniela Pompei
Community of Sant’Egidio
Theodore Edgar Mc Carrick
Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, USA
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Akamas Hall |
| Panel 4 - Has Europe’s Time Come? |
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| Chairperson
Frank De Coninck
Ambasciatore del Regno del Belgio presso la Santa Sede
Contributions
Daniel Deckers
Journalist, Germany
Jean-Arnold de Clermont
Pastor of the Reformed Church, Francia
Theodoros Kassimis
Vice-ministro degli Affari Esteri, Grecia
Jean-Pierre Ricard
Cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
Andreas Theophanous
Università di Nicosia, Cipro
Krystof
Primate Ortodosso della Chiesa delle Terre Ceche e della Slovacchia
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| 09:30 | Technical School of Nicosia- Hall A |
| Panel 5 - The Culture of the Mediterranean |
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| Chairperson
Paul Poupard
Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Holy See
Contributions
Elias Chacour
Archbishop of the Melchite Greek Catholics, Israel
Edgar Busuttil
Jesuit, Director of the Jesuit Centre Faith and Justice, Malta
Christodoulos Lazaris
Ministero degli Affari Esteri di Grecia
Jean-François Leguil-Bayart
Director of Research to CNSR, France
Mohammad Sammak
Political Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Lebanon
Joan Enric Vives I Sicìlia
Vescovo cattolico, Spagna
Paul Youssef Matar
Catholic Maronite Archbishop, Lebanon
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Achera Hall |
| Panel 6 - Prayer as a Source of Peace |
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| Chairperson
Ole Chr. M. Kvarme
Lutheran Bishop, Norway
Contributions
Georgios
Othodox Metropolitan, Church of Cyprus
Wahiduddin Khan
President of the Islamic Centre of New Delhi, India
Arie Zeev Raskin
Rabbi of Larnaca, Cyprus
Abuna Paulos
Patriarch of the orthodox Church of Ethiopia
Armand Puig
Dean of the Theological Faculty of Catalonia, Spain
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Othello Hall |
| Panel 7 - Earth and Humankind: a Dialogue of Faiths and Cultures |
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| Chairperson
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor of the World Bank, USA
Contributions
Khadija Bengana
Christine Boutin
Minister of Housing and City Affaires, France
Serge Latouche
University of Paris XI, France
Andrea Masullo
University of Camerino, Italia
Andon Merdani
Orthodox Bishop of the Church of Albania
Robert Palmer
Director of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage, Council of Europe
Mohinder Singh
National Institute of Panjab Studies, New Delhi
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| 16:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Ballroom A |
| Panel 8 - Israelis and Palestinians in Dialogue for Peace |
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| Chairperson
Antonio Ferrari
Columnist, Italy
Contributions
David Rosen
Chief Rabbi, Director of the Department for Interreligious Affairs of the AJC, Israel
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Custodian of the Holy Land
Bernard Sabella
Member of Palestinian Legislative Council
Meir Sheetrit
Ministro dell'Interno, Israele
Salah A. Zuheika
Vice Ministro degli Waqf, Autorità Palestinese
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| 16:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Ballroom B |
| Panel 9 - Christians and Violence in Today’s World |
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| Chairperson
Jean Claude Petit
President of the National Centre of the Catholic Press of France
Contributions
Samuel Robert Azariah
Vescovo della Chiesa Unita del Pakistan
John C. A. Barrett
President of the World Methodist Council, Singapore
Sylvie Bukhari de Pontual
Activist for the abolition of the torture, France
Tamara Chikunova
Activist for the abolition of the death penalty, Uzbekistan
Ciprian
Vescovo ortodosso, Patriarcato di Romania
Marc Stenger
Catholic Bishop, France
Matteo Zuppi
Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
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| 16:30 | Hilton Ciprus - Kantara Hall |
| Panel 10 - Human Rights: 60 Years after the Declaration |
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| Chairperson
Mario Marazziti
Community of Sant’Egidio
Contributions
Filip Vujanović
President of the Republic of Montenegro
Marios Garoyian
Presidente del Parlamento di Cipro
William Chapman
Direttore delle Politiche della Tony Blair Faith Fondation
Emma Fattorini
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Mikko Heikka
Vescovo luterano, Finlandia
Françoise Rivière
Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO
Cornelio Sommaruga
President Emeritus of the International Red Cross Committee, Switzerland
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| 16:30 | Hilton Park - Ledra B |
| Panel 11 - Africa: Religions and Societies of Coexistence |
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| Chairperson
Theodoros II
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa
Contributions
Muhammad Ashafa
Imam, Joint Executive National Coordinator, Nigeria
Mario Giro
Comunità di Sant’Egidio
Kone Idriss Koudouss
President of the Islamic National Council of Cote D’Ivoire
Paul Yemboaro Ouédraogo
Vescovo cattolico, Burkina Faso
Laurent Ulrich
Arcivescovo cattolico di Lille, Vice presidente Conferenza Episcopale Francese
James Wuye
Pastore, Joint Executive National Coordinator, Nigeria
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| 16:30 | Technical School of Nicosia- Hall A |
| Panel 12 - The Legacy of the Martyrs of the 20th Century |
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| Chairperson
Aram I
Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians
Contributions
Joachim Gnilka
Catholic theologian, Germany
Michel Kubler
Martin Lind
Alexander Ogorodnikov
Witness of the Gulag Deportations, Russian Federation
Adriano Roccucci
Jean Benjamin Sleiman
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| 16:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Achera Hall |
| Panel 13 - Monasticism in the 21st Century |
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| Presided by
Gérard Testard
President of Fondacio, France
Contributions
Vladimir Gaudrat
Catholic, Abbot of Lérins, France
Paul Yazigi
Serafim
Orthodox Metropolitan, Romanian Patriarchate
Gijun Sugitani
Supreme Advisor to the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan
U Uttara
Buddhist monk, Burma
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| 16:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Othello Hall |
| Panel 14 - Faiths and Love |
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| Chairperson
Christina Lee
Movimento dei Focolari
Contributions
David Brodman
Chief Rabbi of Savyon, Israel
David Hamid
Abdoul Aziz Kebe
University of Dakar, Senegal
Paul Lacey
Presidente dell' American Friends Service Committee, USA
Antonios Naguib
Patriarca di Alessandria, Chiesa Copto-Cattolica
Seraphim Kykkotis
Arcivescovo ortodosso, Patriarcato di Alessandria
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| 16:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Akamas Hall |
| Panel 15 - Lebanon, Working for a Civilization of Coexistence |
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| Chairperson
Paul Poupard
Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Holy See
Contributions
Ibrahim Chamseddine
Ministro di Stato per la Riforma Amministrativa, Libano
Abbas El-Halabi
Comunità Drusa, Libano
Paul Youssef Matar
Catholic Maronite Archbishop, Lebanon
Faisal Mawlawi
Segretario generale Gruppo Islamico del Libano
Mohammad Sammak
Political Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Lebanon
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| TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18 2008 |
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| 17:50 | Archbishopric Yard |
| Embrace of Peace |
| The Religious Leaders greet each other and in procession enter the Archbishopric Yard towards the stage |
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Ballroom A |
| Panel 16 - Latin America, Working for a Civilization of Peace |
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| Chairperson
Guzmán Carriquiry
Sotto-Segretario del Pontificio Consiglio per i Laici, Santa Sede
Contributions
Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio
Witness, Colombia
Claudio Hummes
Cardinale, Prefetto della Congregazione per il Clero
Vincenzo Scotti
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Discussants
Jesus Delgado
Secretary of msgr. O.A. Romero, El Salvador
Eugenio Guasta
Responsabile per la Cultura dell'Arcidiocesi di Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Ballroom B |
| Panel 17 - Fighting Poverty to Build Peace |
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| Chairperson
Augusto Forti
Vice-President of „Ideasolidarité”, France
Contributions
Asmaa Benkada
Al-Jazeera TV Program Producer, Qatar
Alain Giorgio Maria Economides
Capo di Gabinetto del Ministro degli Esteri, Italia
Francis Martin-Xavier Campbell
Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
Renato Raffaele Martino
Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Holy See
Sri Sri Ravishankar
Fondatore dell'Art of Living Foundation, India
Celestin Twizere
Community of Sant’Egidio, Rwanda
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| 09:30 | Hilton Ciprus - Kantara Hall |
| Panel 18 - Ecumenism, Christian Unity and Peace among Nations |
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| Chairperson
Paul Poupard
Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Holy See
Contributions
Aram I
Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians
Gregorios
Arcivescovo ortodosso, Patriarcato Ecumenico
Walter Kasper
Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christians’ Unity, Holy See
Setriakor K. Nyomi
Segretario Generale dell’Alleanza Riformata Mondiale
Mary Tanner
Co-President of the World Council of Churches, United Kingdom
Theodoros II
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Akamas Hall |
| Panel 19 - Iraq: Working for a Civilization of Pace |
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| Chairperson
Crescenzio Sepe
Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
Contributions
Sattar Al-Hilo
Presidente dei Mandei in Iraq e nel mondo, Iraq
Abdul Hadi Kadhim Al-Hussaini
Segretario generale della Honored Sada Association, Iraq
Louis Sako
Vescovo cattolico dei Caldei, Iraq
Jean Benjamin Sleiman
Ali Khalid Sarmad
Comunità Sunnita, Iraq
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| 09:30 | Technical School of Nicosia- Hall A |
| Panel 20 - Islam and Christianity: a Complex and Multifaceted Relationship |
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| Chairperson
Pier Luigi Celata
Vescovo, Segretario del Pontificio Consiglio per il Dialogo Interreligioso, Santa Sede
Contributions
Sayyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi
Presidente dell’Istituto per il Dialogo Interreligioso, Iran
Aisha Yousef Al-Menn'ai
Dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Qatar
Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim
Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church
Guy Harpigny
Vescovo cattolico, Belgio
Tarek Mitri
Siti Musdah Mulia
University Islam Syarief Hidayatullah of Indonesia
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Achera Hall |
| Panel 21 - Economic Development and the Civilization of Coexistence: the Role of Religions in Asia |
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| Chairperson
Agostino Giovagnoli
Community of Sant’Egidio
Contributions
Sohan Lal Gandhi
Jainist, President of the Anuvrat Global Organization, India
Yoshitaka Hatakeyama
Vice segretario generale del WCRP-Japan
Gensho Hozumi
President of the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan
Masahiko Iburi
General Director of Tenrikyo, Japan
Takao Ina
Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Japan
Kinjiro Niwano
Consigliere esecutivo di Rissho Kosei-kai, Giappone
Raj K. Srivastava
Study Centre for Society Development, India
Masamichi Tanaka
Oomoto Denomination, Japan
Discussants
Moriyasu Ito
Jiniya Honcho Shinto, Japan
Kansho Kayaki
Buddismo Tendai, Giappone
Yusho Sasaki
Buddismo Soto Zen, Giappone
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| 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Othello Hall |
| Panel 22 - Jews and Christians:an Unavoidable Dialogue |
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Alberto Bobbio
Journalist, Italy
Contributions
Jakov Ebert
Rabbi of Würzburg, Germany
Frank Otfried July
Vescovo della Chiesa Evangelica del Württemberg, Germania
Theodore Edgar Mc Carrick
Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, USA
Israel Singer
World Jewish Congress, USA
Ambrogio Spreafico
Oded Wiener
Director General of the Grand Rabbinate, Israel
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Final
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| 16:15 | Center of the Old Town |
| Christian Prayer |
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| Meditation
Theodoros II
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa
Crescenzio Sepe
Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
Aram I
Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians
Ole Chr. M. Kvarme
Lutheran Bishop, Norway
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| 17:45 | Archbishopric Yard |
| Peace Procession |
| The believers leave the places of prayer and walk together towards the Archbishopric Yard. |
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| 18:00 | Archbishopric Yard |
| Final Ceremony |
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| Contribution
Chrysostomos II
Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus
Andrea Riccardi
Community of Sant'Egidio
Musica Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio
Witness, Colombia
Musica |
| 18:40 | Archbishopric Yard |
| Proclamation of the APPEAL for PEACE 2008 |
| Religious leaders handle the Appeal in the hands of children of various nationalities. The children, on behalf of all generations, give it to ambassadors and authorities representing all nations of the world. |
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| 18:41 | Archbishopric Yard |
| Minute of silence in memory of all the victims of war, terrorism and violence. |
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| 18:56 | Archbishopric Yard |
| Lighting up of candles and signature of Peace Appeal 2008 by religious representatives. |
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| 19:15 | Archbishopric Yard |
| The Ceremony is concluded by an EMBRACE OF PEACE. |
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