ASIA/TURKEY - Pontifical Antonianum College and Mustafa Kemal University in Turkey meet for 9th ecumenical symposium “Paul the Apostle, from Tarsus to Antioch: Archaeology, history and religion”

Monday, 20 June 2005

Antioch (Fides Service) - “Paul the Apostle, from Tarsus to Antioch: Archaeology, history and religion” is the title of an annual Symposium on St Paul held in Turkey promoted jointly by Catholic bodies and pontifical universities in Turkey and Italy with the patronage of the civil authorities. The three day Symposium 26-28 June, in Tarsus and in Antioch, will bring together academics, scholars, religious leaders from Italy and Turkey.
This 9th edition of the symposium is a fruit of profitable collaboration the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality and the Mustafa Kemal University in Turkey and is sponsored by the Eteria Cultural Association and the Emilia Romagna Province of the Capuchin Friars.
The first session in Tarsus will open with greetings to the civil and religious authorities including Papal Nuncio to Turkey Archbishop Edmond Farhat followed by conferences prepared by academics of the University of Ankara and Galatasaray University in Istanbul. At the second session in Antioch speakers will be Italian scholars from universities Bologna and Chieti, the Institute of Ecumenical Theology in Bari and the Pontifical Augustinianum College in Rome. The ecumenical nature of the event will be sanctioned by the presence of Catholic Bishop Luigi Padovese Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia and the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Archbishop of Aleppo Paul Yazigi.
(PA) (Agenzia Fides 20/6/2005 righe 24 parole 240)


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