CEC Assembly Programme 

Thursday June 26

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08.30 - 10.00

Opening Worship in Nidaros Cathedral.

 

Coffee in the lobby.

10.25

Doors to Hall F close. Arrival of HM King Harald V.

10.30 – 12.30

Open of the Assembly.
Welcome by HE Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway.
Keynote speech by HE Dr Kenneth D. Kaunda, Founding President of Zambia.

12.00 – 20.00

Exhibitions at the Torg.
List of exhibitors, please see Appendix 1.

12.00

Opening of the Torg by HE Ms. Anne Kathrine Slungård, Mayor of Trondheim.  Refreshments hosted by the Municipality.

12.30 – 14.00

Lunch in Hall E for Assembly participants and invited guests.

13.00 – 13.30

Briefing on the Assembly

13.40 – 14.00

Speaker’s Corner at the Torg:
”525 600 Minutes Sharing the Love of a Year of Volunteering Service” .

14.00 – 15.00

No programme apart from meeting of Section Moderators*.

14.00 – 17.00

Youth Programme
at The Methodist Church: Sexual Abuse and Reconciliation. Is it possible?

14.40 – 15.00

Entertainment at the Torg:
Traditional Norwegian song – Kveding – by Ms. Randi Lundemoen.

15.00 – 16.30

Thematic Hearings:

1.       Reconciliation: Perspectives from Northern Ireland.

2.       Migration in Europe – Churches’ Involvements for Migrants’ Rights, Refugee Protection and against Racism.

3.       The Churches and HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Responses.

4.       Churches as Healing Communities.

5.       Facing Common Challenges in a Changing Europe – a Christian Perspective in the Baltic and Barents Regions.

16.30 – 17.00

Coffee at the Torg
Entertainment 16.30 – 16.40 The Children’s Choir of Bratsberg Primary School.

16.40 – 17.00

Presentation of the
Geiranger Declaration on the Environment of the North Sea
By His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and the Right Revd. Finn Wagle of Nidaros.

17.00 – 18.30

Thematic Hearings:

6.       A New European Slave Market? Trafficking in Women in Europe – Challenges to the Churches.

7.       How are the Churches facing Bioethics in the 21st Century?

8.       Minority and majority churches in Europe - conflict and reconciliation.

9.       “Quality of Life for all": Diaconia - Struggling for a Social Europe.

10.   Called to Communicate: the Churches' Witness in the Information Society.

18.30 – 20.00

Dinner Hall E

19.00 – 20.00

Extra hearing at the Torg D3:
”Focus on Europe’s Indigenous People” .
For details please see appendix 2.

19.00 – 23.50

Reflections on Reconciliation in Film – Vår Frues Church:
19.00 Church Service with film.
20.00 Eight Short Films – two from Sweden and six from Norway.
22.00 “Lilja 4-Ever”  - Sweden, 2002. Director: Lukas Moodysson.

20.00 – 21.30

Plenary in Hall F*.

 

Evening Prayer at Hall A

21.00 – 24.00

Café Børsen is open for participants of the Assembly.

22.00

Youth Programme
at The Methodist Church: Jazz Service with a Sofia Mass Liturgy.

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