Witnesses of Mercy for Peace and Reconciliation

III Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VI Prof. Patrice Brodeur Address to representatives of different religions . . . IX His Holiness Pope Francis Introductory Words Welcome and Opening Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . 2 His Excellency Faisal Bin Muaammar Welcome and Opening Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . 5 His Excellency Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, mccj The Foundations of Mercy Prof. Mohammed Abu-Nimer . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 His Excellency Grand Mufti Sheikh Dr. Shawki Ibrahim Allam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Bibi Kiranjot Kaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 His Grace The Right Reverend Bishop Elias Toumeh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 His Holiness Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji . . 20 Chief Rabbi David Rosen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 His Excellency Grand Mufti Abdelateef Deriane . . 27 Kaushalya Munda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 His Highness Prince Breen Tahseen . . . . . . . . 34 Rev. Kosho Niwano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Witnessing Mercy for Peace and Reconciliation Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Dr. Nayla Tabbara and Rev. Prof. Fadi Daou Martin Temres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Caroline Hazcour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 José “Chencho” Alas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Venerable Sein Di Ta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Al Haj U Aye Lwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Sara Saad and Wissam Nahas . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Dr. Abdulaziz Saud Aldhowaihy . . . . . . . . . . 58 Sheikh Dr. Abdalrahman Allowaihiq . . . . . . . . 60 Hind Kabawat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 His Excellency Dr. Ibrahim Bin Adbul Aziz Al-Zaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 His Excellency Judge Sheikh Makarem . . . . . . . 68 Nang Loung Hom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Prof. Jayantha Seneviratne . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Dishani Jayaweera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Jamila Afghani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Lessons Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Dr. Nayla Tabbara and Rev. Prof. Fadi Daou Concluding Words His Excellency Faisal Bin Muaammar . . . . . . . 86 His Excellency Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, mccj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 List of participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Mercy across religions: a summary of key terms . . 96