| SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6 2009 |
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| 10:00 | Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy  |
| Eucharistic Celebration |
| The Celebration will be accompanied by the performances of: The Mixed Choir of the Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy in Cracow, The Psalmodic Choir of the Pontifical University John Paul II in Cracow, The Student Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Cracow, directors: Krzysztof and Julia Michałek |
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| Greeting Marco Impagliazzo   President of the Community of Sant’Egidio
Homily Stanislaw Dziwisz   Cardinal, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland
Serafim   Orthodox Metropolitan, Romanian Patriarchate
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| 12:00 | Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy  |
| Live connection with the Angelus Prayer |
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| Greeting BENEDETTO XVI  
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| 17:00 | Auditorium Maximum  |
| Opening Assembly |
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| I PARTE Chairperson Françoise Rivière  Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO
Welcome greetings Karol Musiol  Rector of the Jagiellonian University, Poland
Inaugural greetings Stanislaw Dziwisz   Cardinal, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland
Radosław Sikorski   Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Keynote address Andrea Riccardi   Community of Sant'Egidio
Contribution Michel Camdessus   Honorary Governor of the Bank of France
Musica II PARTE Chairperson Hanna Suchocka  Ambassador of Poland to the Holy See
Keynote address José Manuel Barroso   President of the Europian Commission
Contributions Henri de Luxembourg   Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Yves Sahinguvu   Vice President of the Republic of Burundi
Filip Vujanović   President of the Republic of Montenegro
David Rosen   Chief Rabbi, Director of the Department for Interreligious Affairs of the AJC, Israel
Walter Kasper   Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christians’ Unity, Holy See
Ahmad Al-Tayyeb 
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| MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7 2009 |
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| 09:30 | Słowacki Theatre  |
| Panel 1 - Do Not Forget Auschwitz |
| At the end of the Panel an Award Ceremony will take place in which His Eminence Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz will receive the Jan Karski Eagle prize |
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| Chairperson Ambrogio Spreafico 
Contributions David Brodman  Chief Rabbi of Savyon, Israel
Mieczyslaw Cisło  Catholic Bishop, Poland
Mordechay Lewy  Ambassador of Israel to the Holy See
Klaus Reder   Community of Sant’Egidio, Germany
Martin Salm  President of the „Memory, Responsibility and Future” Foundation, Germany
Michael Schudrich   Chief Rabbi of Poland
Premiazione Stanislaw Dziwisz   Cardinal, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland
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| 09:30 | Filharmonia Krakowska  |
| Panel 2 - Memory and Prophecy: the Legacy of John Paul II |
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| Chairperson Marco Impagliazzo  President of the Community of Sant’Egidio
Contributions Michel Camdessus   Honorary Governor of the Bank of France
Ewa Czaczkowska  Journalist, Poland
Jürgen Johannesdotter  Evangelical Bishop, Germany
Stanislaw Ryłko  Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Laity, Holy See
Crescenzio Sepe   Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
Serafim   Orthodox Metropolitan, Romanian Patriarchate
Franco Sottocornola   Shinmeizan Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue, Japan
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| 09:30 | Aula Collegium Novum UJ  |
| Panel 3 - 70 Years After World War II, War is not a Destiny |
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| Chairperson Roger Etchegaray  Cardinal, Vice Dean of the College of Cardinals, Holy See
Contributions Jesus Delgado  Secretary of msgr. O.A. Romero, El Salvador
Jan Maciej Dyduch  Rector of the Pontifical University “John Paul II” in Cracow, Poland
David Hamid  
Tomokazu Hatakeyama   Deputy Secretary General of WCRP-Japan
Heinrich Mussinghoff  Catholic Bishop, Germany
Cornelio Sommaruga   President Emeritus of the International Red Cross Committee, Switzerland
William F. Vendley  Secretary General of WCRP International, USA
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| 09:30 | Cracow City Hall – Hall A  |
| Panel 4 - Europe’s Mission in the World 20 Years After 1989 |
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| Chairperson Francis Martin-Xavier Campbell  Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
Contributions Giuseppe Laras  President of the Assembly of Rabbis of Italy
Pierre Morel  Secretary General of the Council of the European Union
Paul Poupard   Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Holy See
Filip Vujanović  President of the Republic of Montenegro
Lech Wałęsa  Former President of the Republic of Poland
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul  Minister of Cooperation, Germany
Franciszek Ziejka  Former Rector of the Jagiellonian University, Poland
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| 09:30 | Cracow City Hall – Hall B  |
| Panel 5 - Latin America in a Globalized World |
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| Chairperson Matteo Zuppi  Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Contributions Geri Benoit   Ambassador of Haiti to Italy
Alberto Bobbio  Journalist, Italy
Fabiola Ruszczyk   Catholic Church, Poland
Vincenzo Scotti   Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Irineu Silvio Wilges   Catholic Bishop, Brazil
Patricia Eugenia Ynestroza Navarrete   Journalist of Vatican Radio
Alfredo H. Zecca   Rector of the Catholic Pontifical University of Argentina
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| 09:30 | Cracow City Hall – Hall C  |
| Panel 6 - Market Society, Religions and the Challenge of Materialism |
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| Chairperson Antonio Ferrari  Columnist, Italy
Contributions Zbigniew Cichoń   Member of the Polish Senate
John J. DeGioia  President of the Georgetown University, USA
Olav Fikse Tveit  Church of Norway
Policarpo   Orthodox Archbishop, Ecumenical Patriarchate
Mohamed Raoundi  University of Dar el-Hadith el-Hassaniya of Rabat, Morocco
Angelo Scelzo  Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Holy See
Swami Shantatmananda  Secretary General of Ramakrishna Mission of New Delhi, India
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| 09:30 | Seminary of the Archdiocese of Cracow  |
| Panel 7 - Dialogue of Faith and Culture |
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| Chairperson Vittorio Ianari  Community of Sant’Egidio
Contributions Adil Akmetov  Senator of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Roberto Catalano  Focolari Movement, Italy
Gregorios III Laham  Greek Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
Aleksander Gudzowaty  Businessman, Poland
Ronald Kronish  Director of the Inter-religious Coordinating Council, Israel
Cemal Uşak  Secretary General of the Inter-cultural Dialogue Platform, Turkey
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| 09:30 | Franciscan Convent – Hall A  |
| Panel 8 - Faiths and the Value of Life |
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| Chairperson Jean-Marie Bala  Catholic Bishop, Cameroon
Contributions Cherubina Zofia Bokota   Catholic Church, Poland
Domenico Crupi  Director General of “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, Italy
Sohan Lal Gandhi   Jainist, President of the Anuvrat Global Organization, India
Thero Gnanarama   Principal Buddhist and Pali College of Singapore
Siti Musdah Mulia  University Islam Syarief Hidayatullah of Indonesia
Gerhard Pross   Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), Germany
Oded Wiener   Director General of the Grand Rabbinate, Israel
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| 09:30 | Franciscan Convent – Hall B  |
| Panel 9 - Faiths in Asia: Building a World Without Violence |
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| Chairperson Agostino Giovagnoli  Community of Sant’Egidio
Contributions Homi Dhalla   World Zoroastrian Cultural Foundation, India
Jiso Giuseppe Forzani  Soto Zen Buddhism, France
Moriyasu Ito  Jiniya Honcho Shinto, Japan
Korei Hamanaka   President of Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Giappone
Gensho Hozumi   President of the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan
Hironobu Katori  Jinjya Honcho Shinto, Japan
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| 09:30 | Dominican Convent  |
| Panel 10 - Xenophobia and Philoxenia: Europe at a Crossroads |
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| Chairperson Jean Claude Petit  President of the National Centre of the Catholic Press of France
Contributions Edgar Busuttil   Jesuit, Director of the Jesuit Centre Faith and Justice, Malta
Titos Christofides   Secretary of State to the President of the Republic of Cyprus
Jaron Engelmayer   Chief Rabbi of Koln, Germany
Niyazi Öktem  University of Bilgi, Turkey
John Pelushi   Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Church of Albania
Daniela Pompei   Community of Sant’Egidio
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| 09:30 | Aula Collegium Maius UJ  |
| Panel 11 - Living Together in a Plural World |
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| Chairperson Maite Carpio  Film Director, Italy
Contributions Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton  Catholic Archbishop, Benin
Christine Boutin  Minister of Housing and City Affaires, France
Mario Marazziti  Community of Sant’Egidio
Paul Youssef Matar  Catholic Maronite Archbishop, Lebanon
Lluis Martinez Sistach   Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
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| 16:30 | Słowacki Theatre  |
| Panel 12 - John Paul II and the „Spirit of Assisi” |
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| Chairperson Roger Etchegaray  Cardinal, Vice Dean of the College of Cardinals, Holy See
Contributions Athanasios  Orthodox Metropolitan of the Church of Greece
Jean Dominique Durand  University of Lyon, France
Wahiduddin Khan  President of the Islamic Centre of New Delhi, India
David Rosen   Chief Rabbi, Director of the Department for Interreligious Affairs of the AJC, Israel
Gijun Sugitani   Supreme Advisor to the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan
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| 16:30 | Filharmonia Krakowska  |
| Panel 13 - Africa, Land of Opportunity |
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| Chairperson Gérard Testard  President of Fondacio, France
Contributions Jean Michel Debrat   Direttore Generale aggiunto dell’Agenzia Francese per lo Sviluppo
Mario Giro   Comunità di Sant’Egidio
Honoré Guié  President of Radio Télévision Ivorienne (RTI), Cote d’Ivoire
Janina Ochojska  President of Polish Humanitarian Action, Poland
Serapio Rukundo   Minister of Cultural Heritage, Uganda
Yves Sahinguvu  Vice President of the Republic of Burundi
Hamidou Sall   International Organization of French-speaking Communities, France
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| 16:30 | Aula Collegium Novum UJ  |
| Panel 14 - 1989: A Peaceful Transition |
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| Chairperson Tadeusz Pieronek  Catholic Bishop, Poland
Contributions Luigi Geninazzi  Journalist, Italy
Hans-Henning Horstmann   Ambassador of Germany to the Holy See
Ioan  Orthodox Archbishop, Romanian Patriarchate
Grzegorz Ryś  Rector of the Catholic Seminary of Cracow, Poland
Vincenzo Scotti   Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Lech Wałęsa  Former President of the Republic of Poland
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| 16:30 | Cracow City Hall – Hall A  |
| Panel 15 - Humankind’s Spiritual Quest in a Time of Economic Crisis |
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| Chairperson Lluis Martinez Sistach  Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
Contributions Michel Camdessus   Honorary Governor of the Bank of France
Daniel Deckers  Journalist, Germany
Katherine Marshall   Senior Advisor of the World Bank, USA
Kosho Niwano  Rissho Kosei-kai, Japan
Theodore Edgar Mc Carrick   Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, USA
Françoise Rivière   Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO
Aleksander Surdej   Expert in Economics, Poland
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| 16:30 | Cracow City Hall – Hall B  |
| Panel 16 - No to the Death Penalty: No Justice Without Life |
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| Chairperson Cornelio Sommaruga   President Emeritus of the International Red Cross Committee, Switzerland
Contributions Tamara Chikunova   Activist for the abolition of the death penalty, Uzbekistan
Marco Gnavi   Community of Sant’Egidio, Italy
Moshe Lewin  Rabbi, Advisor to the Central Consistory of France
Jean Mbarga  Catholic Bishop, Cameroon
Armand Puig  Dean of the Theological Faculty of Catalonia, Spain
Masamichi Tanaka   Oomoto Denomination, Japan
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| 16:30 | Cracow City Hall – Hall B  |
| Panel 17 - Religions and Global Health of the World: the Rebirth of Africa |
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| Chairperson and Speaker Crescenzio Sepe   Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
Contributions Benoit Alowonou  Catholic Bishop, Togo
Joshua DuBois  Director of White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Abdoul Aziz Kebe  University of Dakar, Senegal
Kone Idriss Koudouss   President of the Islamic National Council of Cote D’Ivoire
Jean-Pierre Kutwa  Catholic Archbishop, Cote d’Ivoire
Ishmael Noko  Secretary General of the World Lutheran Federation
Seraphim  Orthodox Archbishop of the Patriarchate of Alexandria
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| 16:30 | Seminary of the Archdiocese of Cracow  |
| Panel 18 - Christian Unity, for the World to Believe |
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| Chairperson Vincenzo Paglia  Catholic Bishop, Italy
Contributions Johan Jozef Bonny   Catholic Bishop, Belgium
Jean-Arnold de Clermont   Pastor of the Reformed Church, Francia
German  Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Moscow Patriarchate
Policarpo   Orthodox Archbishop, Ecumenical Patriarchate
Mary Tanner  Co-President of the World Council of Churches, United Kingdom
Vasilios  Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop, Church of Cyprus
Anders Wejryd  Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala and Primate of Sweden
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| 16:30 | Franciscan Convent – Hall A  |
| Panel 19 - The Power of Prayer Over History |
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| Chairperson and Speaker Vladimir Gaudrat   Catholic, Abbot of Lérins, France
Contributions David Brodman  Chief Rabbi of Savyon, Israel
Thero Gnanarama  Principal Buddhist and Pali College of Singapore
Jerzy Pańkowski   Orthodox Bishop, Church of Poland
Siti Musdah Mulia  University Islam Syarief Hidayatullah of Indonesia
Andrzej Napiórkowski  Catholic Theologian, Poland
Alexander Ogorodnikov  Witness of the Gulag Deportations, Russian Federation
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| 16:30 | Dominican Convent  |
| Panel 20 - Martyrdom and Resistance to Evil |
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| Chairperson and Speaker Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim   Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church
Contributions Marguerite Barankitse  Witness of the genocide, Burundi
Filipp Roman Osadchenko  Archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarchate of Moscow
Jürgen Johannesdotter  Evangelical Bishop, Germany
Piotr Libera  Catholic Bishop, Poland
Norvan Zakarian   Orthodox Archbishop, Armenian Patriarchate of Etchmiadzin
Angelo Romano  Rector of the Basilica of St.Bartholomew in Rome, Italy
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| 16:30 | Franciscan Convent – Hall B  |
| Panel 21 - The Scriptures in Monotheistic Faiths |
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| Chairperson and Speaker Gregorios III Laham  Greek Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
Contributions John C. A. Barrett  President of the World Methodist Council, Singapore
Mohammed Esslimani  Islamic theologian, Saudi Arabia
Joachim Gnilka   Catholic theologian, Germany
Łukasz Kamykowski  Catholic Theologian, Poland
Ole Chr. M. Kvarme   Lutheran Bishop, Norway
Michael Schudrich  Chief Rabbi of Poland
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| 16:30 | Aula Collegium Maius UJ  |
| Panel 22 - Faith and Science |
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| Chairperson Alberto Bobbio   Journalist, Italy
Contributions Augusto Forti   Vice-President of „Ideasolidarité”, France
Hassan Hanafi   Università del Cairo, Egitto
Masahiko Iburi   General Director of Tenrikyo, Japan
Giuseppe Laras  President of the Assembly of Rabbis of Italy
Paul Poupard   Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Holy See
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| TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8 2009 |
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| 11:00 | Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp  |
| Memorial Ceremony |
| Silent March along the rail tracks and Memorial Ceremony at the Monument for the Victims of Nazi-fascism |
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| Greetings Tadeusz Rakoczy  Vescovo di Bielsko-Zywiec
Witness Israel Meir Lau   Ex Rabbino Capo - Sopravvissuto dek campo di concentramento di Auschwitz
Ceija Stojka  Gipsy, Survived from Nazi Concentration Camps, Austria
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| 17:15 | Old Town  |
| Meetings of Prayer |
| The various Religious Communities gather in different places, in the centre of the Old Town, for their prayer |
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| 17:15 | Old Town  |
| Christian Prayer |
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| Meditation Olav Fikse Tveit   Church of Norway
Policarpo   Orthodox Archbishop, Ecumenical Patriarchate
Crescenzio Sepe   Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
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| 18:30 | Old Town  |
| Procession of Peace |
| The believers leave the places of prayer and walk together to the Market Square |
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| 18:45 | Market Square  |
| Final Ceremony |
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| Contribution Stanislaw Dziwisz   Cardinal, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland
Andrea Riccardi   Community of Sant'Egidio
Musica Gijun Sugitani  Supreme Advisor to the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Japan
Marguerite Barankitse   Witness of the genocide, Burundi
Joshua DuBois   Director of White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Musica |
| 19:20 | Market Square  |
| Minute of silence in memory of all the victims of war, terrorism and violence. |
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| 19:25 | Market Square  |
| Proclamation of the APPEAL for PEACE 2009 |
| 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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| 19:40 | Market Square  |
| Intervention |
| Contribution Lluis Martinez Sistach  Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
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| 19:45 | Market Square  |
| Lighting of the candleholders and signing of the APPEAL FOR PEACE 2009 |
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| 19:50 | Market Square  |
| The ceremony ends with the exchange of a sign of peace |
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