IF20 – Focus Sessions
Teatro San Leonardo, Via San Vitale, 63, 40125, Bologna

The Theological Nature of Dialogue

In cooperation with the European Academy of Religion

Focus Session 1

Chair
Alessandra Trotta, Moderator of the Waldensian Board – Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches in Italy

Co-chair
Adalberto Mainardi, Monk at the Monastic Community of Bose

Speakers
Faming Yang, President of the China Islamic Association
Khaled Akasheh, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue
Edmond Brahimaj (Mondi), World Grandfather of the Bektashi Community

Leonid, Vice-Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and Alania
Bertram Johannes Meier, Bishop of Ausburg and Chair of the sub-commission for the interreligious dialogue of the German Bishops’ Conference
Ibrahim Saleh Al Naimi, Chairman of the Doha International Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Qatar
Mohamed Nazir Ayad, Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Assembly