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| Volume 6 Number 20 - Tuesday, May 18th, 2004 |
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Religious Leaders Meet in Mardin for Peace By Mustafa Ozge
The conference, which is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Governorship of Mardin and Mardin Education Foundation (MAREV), will be held in the Qasimiye (Qasimiyya) Madrasa. Topics such as "Peace in Abraham's Message", "Peace in the Abrahamic Tradition", "Heroes of Peace in the Three Heavenly Religions", "The Place of the Abrahamic Message in the Future World" will be discussed over four sessions. 28 academics and 11 religious leaders from Germany, the US, Sweden, England, Italy, France and Turkey will participate in the symposium. After an opening ceremony at 09:30 by the Intercultural Dialogue Platform, the Kirklar Church, Mardin Ulu Mosque, Hatuniya Madrasah -in which the footprint of the Prophet Muhammad exists- and the Tombs of Sitti Radviye and her son Qutbettin Ilgazi will be visited as part of the symposium. The Deyrulzaferan Monastery, and the monasteries of Mor Gabriel in the Midyat district and Mor Yaqub in the Nusaybin district as well as Hasankeyf will also be visited. The program in Mardin will conclude with a visit to the tomb and Mosque of Zeynel Abidin. The participants will then come to Istanbul to complete the symposium.
Vice-Director of Religious Affairs Muhammet Sevki
Aydin, Istanbul Mufti Dr. Mustafa Cagrici,
Istanbul Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomeos,
Turkey Armenians Patriarch Mesrob II, Turkey
Jewish Chief Rabbi Rav. Ishak Haleva, Roman
Catholic Apostolic Vicar in Istanbul Monsignor
Georges Marovitch, Latin Catholic Congregation
Spiritual Leader Monsignor Louis Pelatre, Assyrian
Orthodox Community Metropolit Filksinos Yusuf
Cetin and Assyrian Catholic Community Patriarchal
Vicar Chorbishop Yusuf Sag are expected to
participate in the symposium whose Project
Scientific Coordinator is Dr. Bekir Karliga. The
first of the International Symposia of Religions
and Peace in the Light of the Common Ancestor
Abraham (Harran Meetings) were held in the Harran
district of Sanliurfa - the place of birth of the
Prophet Abraham- between April 13 and 16, 2000. 44
theologians, academics and journalists had joined
the Abraham Symposium. |
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