Community of Sant'Egidio - Assisi 2006 - For a World of Peace: Religions and Cultures in dialogue
  
  Final Ceremony

Final Ceremony                ONLINE VIDEO         sign the Peace Appeal 2006

h 5.15 pm

Prayer for Peace

Christian people meet at St. Rufino Cathedral



Meditations

Richard Chartres
Vescovo anglicano di Londra, Gran Bretagna

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Walter Kasper
Cardinale, Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la Promozione dell’Unit� dei Cristiani, Santa Sede

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Mesrob II
Patriarca Armeno di Costantinopoli

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Christian prayer will be broadcasted (audio and video) during the march towards St. Francis Square




Other religious communities meet in different places

h 6.40 pm

March of Peace

While the bells ring christian people march towards Piazza del Comune where they meet other religious leaders.

Embrace of Peace

Peace procession

All the religious leaders, the authorities and the people walk together from Piazza del Comune towards Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco

h 7.30 pm

Final Ceremony

the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano is present

Domenico Sorrentino
Bishop of Assisi

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Andrea Riccardi
Founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio

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Melissa Nagadja
Community of Sant'Egidio, Uganda

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Minute of silence in memory of all the war, terrorism and violence victims

Proclamation of the PEACE APPEAL 2006
Zeinab Ahmed Dolal, Somalia, reading

The religious leaders give the Appeal to children of various nationality.
The children, standing for all generations, consign it to the ambassadors and authorities that represent all the countries of the world.

Crescenzio Sepe
Cardinal Archbishop of Napoli

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Religious representatives light up the candles and sign the Peace Appeal 2006

EMBRACE OF PEACE

Feast of "Peace People"