10th World Assembly: IMPORTANT SCHEDULE UPDATE

TUESDAY, 20 August 2019

• 7:30 – 9:00 Security Check & Registration [Inselhalle]
• 8:00 – 8:30 Optional Religious Services [Inselhalle or St. Stephan Church]
• 9:00 – 10:00 Business Meeting 1 (Delegates only) [Inselhalle, Plenary Hall]
• 10:30-12:15 OPENING CEREMONY [Inselhalle, Plenary Hall]
• Multi-religious Prayer by Children
• Welcome by German Religious Leaders
• Joint Welcome by the Co-Moderators
• – Rev. Kosho Niwano, President-Designate, Rissho Kosei-Kai, Japan; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace
• – H.E. John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace
• – Dr. Vinu Aram, Director, Shanti Ashram; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace
• – H.E. Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, President, Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, United Arab Emirates; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace Video Collage of Work in the Field
• Opening Address
• – H.E. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal President, Federal Republic of Germany
• Keynotes
• – H.A.H. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• – H.E. Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, President, Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, UAE; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace
• – Dr. William F. Vendley, Secretary General, Religions for Peace
  Pledge of Commitment According to One’s Own Faith
• – Dr. Vinu Aram, Director, Shanti Ashram, India; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace
• Group Picture
• 12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
• 13:30 – 15:00 Religious Caucuses
• Assembly participants come together within each of their religious groups for an in-depth discussion.
• – Bahá’í Caucus: Restaurant, Inselhalle
• – Buddhist Caucus: Rooms 1-3, Inselhalle
• – Christian Caucus: St. Stephan’s Church
• – Hindu Caucus: Room L3 (lower ground floor), Inselhalle
• – Indigenous Caucus: Restaurant, Inselhalle
• – Jain Caucus: Restaurant, Inselhalle
• – Jewish Caucus: Rooms 5-8, Inselhalle
• – Muslim Caucus: Rooms L1-2 (lower ground floor), Inselhalle
• – Sikh Caucus: Restaurant, Inselhalle
• – Zoroastrian Caucus: Restaurant, Inselhalle
• 15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
• 15: 15 – 16:15 PLENARY I: Advancing Shared Well-Being as Multi-Religious Vision of Positive Peace
• Moderator:
• – Dr. Vinu Aram, Director, Shanti Ashram, India; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace
• Address:
• – Revd. Dr. Thomas Wipf, President, European Interreligious Council of Religious Leaders (ECRL- Religions for Peace), Switzerland
• Panelists
• – H.E. Jose Ramos Horta, Former President and Prime Minister of East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
• – Mr. Steve Killelea, Founder and Executive Chairman, The Charitable Foundation; Institute for Economics and Peace, Australia; Treasurer and International Trustee, Religions for Peace
• – Action Point on Charter for Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Bhai Sahib Bhai Mohinder Singh, OBE KSG, Chairman, Guru Nanak Sewak Jatha, United Kingdom; Co-President, Religions for Peace
• 16:45 – 19:00 5 Simultaneous Commissions [different rooms]
• 18:00 – 19:15 Steering, Declaration and Nominating Committees (closed)
• 19:30 – 21:30 OPENING BANQUET [Inselhalle, Plenary Hall]

WEDNESDAY, 21 August 2019

• 8:00 – 8:30 Optional Religious Services [Inselhalle or St. Stephan Church]
• 8:45 – 9:00 Joint multi-religious Prayer and Meditation [Inselhalle, Plenary Hall]
• 9:00 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION: MENA Women as Peacemakers — A Conversation [Inselhalle, Plenary Hall]
• Moderator:
• – Rev. Bishop Petra Bosse-Huber, Bishop, Evangelical Church in Germany
• Conversationalists
• – Hon. Mehrézia Labidi-Maiza, First Vice-President, Constitutional Assembly, Tunisia; Secretary, Association for Women’s Progress; Honorary President, Religions for Peace
• – Ms. Layla Alkhafaji, Former Iraqi Parliament Member; Member of Political Bureau of Alhikmah Movement; Human Rights Activist
• – H.E. Minister Nabila Makram, Representative, Middle East Council of Churches
• – H.E. Ambassador Houda Ezra Nonoo, Former Ambassador to the United States from
  Bahrain
• 11:00 – 12:30 PLENARY II: Advancing Shared Well-Being by Preventing and Transforming Violent Conflicts [Inselhalle, Plenary Hall]
• Moderator:
• – Dr. Azza Karam, Coordinator, UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Religion and Development; Senior Advisor on Social and Cultural Development, United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA
• – Experience 1 on Conflict: Spokesperson of Religions for Peace Myanmar
• – Experience 2 on Terrorism and Youth: H.M. Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto, Sultanate of Sokoto, Nigeria; Co-President, Religions for Peace and H.E. John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria; Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace; Co-Moderator, African Council of Religious Leaders- Religions for Peace (ACRL- Religions for Peace)
• Action Point on Disarmament:
• – Ms. Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
• 12:30 – 13:00 Procession
• 13:15 – 14:00 Ring for Peace Ceremony
• Moderator:
• – Ms. Zahra Nedjabat, Deutsche Welle
• Keynote Speech
• – H.E. Mr. Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
• 14:15 – 14:45 Lunch
• 14:45 – 16:15 5 Simultaneous Commissions
• 16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
• 16:45 – 18:00 Business Meeting 2 (Delegates only) [Inselhalle, Plenary Hall]
• 18:15 – 18:45 Steering, Declaration and Nominating Committees (closed)
• 19:00 – 21:00 Option 1: Dinner with Lindau Community [on the Market Square on Lindau Island with local population]
• A long table on the Market Square in Lindau, organized by the Catholic and Protestant church, invites all Assembly Delegates for a joint multi-religious openair Dinner. The local population of Lindau and Assembly delegates are invited to take a seat together, enjoy dinner, spent time together and get to know each other.
• The Market Square is located at a 5-minute walking distance from the conference venue Inselhalle.
• 19:00 – 21:00 Option 2: Dinner at Conference Venue [Inselhalle]