Our Common Home: A Platform for Dialogue

 

Protecting the Common Home: Guaranteeing Rights for More People in the Americas
First Meeting “The Americas in Dialogue-Our Common Home”

Vatican City, September 7-8, 2016

 

September 7
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

  1. Welcome, by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
  2. Presentation by Dr. Luis Almagro Lemes, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
  3. Presentation on the IDI experience, by Presbyter Guillermo Marcó, Mr. Omar Abboud, Rabbi Daniel Goldman.
  4. Conference: The expression of Dialogue. Monsignor Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, Secretary, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
  5. What is happening in our Common Home: Reflections from the Judiciary in the Americas.

 

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Luncheon


2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Plenary on experiences with intercultural and interreligious dialogue in the various countries of the Americas.

*Peace as a benchmark, strengthening democracy, inclusion, and transmitting values to civil society in protecting the Common Home
*Water, the earth, and the creation in theological building and religious diversity
*Establishment of the Council for Interreligious Dialogue for the Americas
*Future activities

*Laudato Si: Approaches and Responses, consolidating dialogue among judicial branches in the Americas

 

September 8
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

  1. Presentation of the “Protecting our Common Home: Guaranteeing Rights for More People in the Americas” Initiative
  2. Meeting with His Holiness Pope Francis
  3. Rapporteur’s Report: Preparation and Presentation of the Conclusions of the Event
  4. Closing Ceremony