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"Social Justice" in Inter Religious Perspective

Workshop of the Inter Religious Council of Cambodia in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh

August 17, 2007

7.30 a.m.Registration

8.00 a.m. Opening ceremony

Welcome remarks

Wolfgang Meyer, Country Representative of the Konrad

Adenauer Foundation

Official Opening

H. E. Mom Chimhuy, Member of the National Assembly, Chairman of the

Commission on Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Tourism (requested)

8.15 a.m.Dimensions of the concept of social justice from a German point of view

Speaker: H. E. Peter Weiss, Member of the German Bundestag

8.30 a.m.Dimensions of the concept of social justice from a

German point of view

Speaker: H. E. Peter Weiss, Member of the German

Bundestag

9.00 a.m.The concept of social justice in Buddhism and its application in the life of

practitioners of Buddhism

Speaker: Venerable Khy Sovannratanak, Lecturer, Buddhist Institute Preah

Sihanouk Reach

9.45 a.m. Coffee break

10.00 a.m.The concept of social justice in the Islam and its

application in the life of practitioners of Islam

Speakers: Oknha Sos Kamry, Grand Mufti-Highest Council for Islamic Religious

Affairs of Cambodia, President Council Member of CIC (requested)

and: H.E. Vann Math, President of Cambodia Islamic Association

Advisory Council Member of the Cambodian Inter Religious Council

10.45 a.m.The concept of social justice in the Catholic

Christian Faith and its application in the life of

practitioners of Catholicism

Speaker: Father Un Son, Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh, President

Council Member of CIC (requested)

11.30 p.m. Common lunch at the hotel

1.00 p.m.The concept of social justice in the Protestant Christian faith and its

application in the life of practitioners of Protestantism

Speaker: H.E. Ung Ty, Senator, Chairman of Protestant Cambodian Community,

President Council Member of the Cambodian Inter Religious Council (requested)

1.15 p.m.Summary – concurrence and differences amongst the

religious groups

Speaker: Heng Monychenda, Director, Buddhism for

Development

2.15 p.m. Open forum

Moderator: Yi Thon, Secretary General of the Cambodian Inter Religious

Council

2.45 p.m.Introducing interests and convictions of religious groups into the political

arena

Speaker: H. E. Peter Weiss, Member of the German Bundestag

3.30 p.m.Official closing of the workshop

Speaker: H. E. Kong Korm, Senator, Chairman of the Commission on Education,

Youth, Sport, Religious Affairs Culture and Tourism (requested)