CURRENT DIALOGUE
Issue 44, December 2004

“Family as a source of values and spirituality”
Addis Ababa, September 13-17, 2004
Participants

Prof. (Mrs) Christie Chinwe Achebe
Professor
Bard College
U.S.A.

Dr. Mustafa Ali
Global Network of Religions for Children
Tanzania

Mr. Teshale Kerro
Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council
Ethiopia

Miss Ebise Ashana
Ethiopian Evangelical Church
Mekane Yesus
Ethiopia

Imam Ibrahima A.S. Burang-John
Muslim Society of Gambian Imams
The Gambia

Rt. Rev. Msgr. Abraham Desta
Vicar Apostolic of Meki
Ethiopia

Mr. El-Mohammed El-Sheikh
C/o Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Sudan

Sr. Dr Anthonia Essien
University of Uyo, Faculty of Arts
Nigeria

Rev. Dr Paul Germond
Department of Sociology,
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa

Rev LaVerne McCain Gill
Dexter, Michigan
U.S.A.

Professor Paul Gundani
Department of Church History
UNISA
South Africa

Mr Gebremichael Heramo
Ethiopian Interfaith Forum for Development Dialogue and Action
Ethiopia

The Rt. Rev. Dr. S. Tilewa Johnson
Bishop of Gambia
The Gambia

Abba Tsegaye Keneni
Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat
Ethiopia

Most Rev. Mons. Method Kilaini
Tanzania

Archbishop John Kivuli
Organisation of African Instituted Churches
Kenya

Dr Nigussu Legesse
Ethiopian Orthodox Church Development Inter-Church Aid Commission
Ethiopia

Dr Laban U. Masimba
(Dr. Grace Kalimugogo)
African Union
Ethiopia

Sheikh Saliou Mbacke
Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa
C/o LWF/DWS
Kenya

Prof. John Mbiti
Switzerland

Prof. Penda Mbow
Faculté des lettres et Sciences Humaines
UCAD
Senegal

Mr Mutua Mulonzya
Nairobi
Kenya

Archbishop Ndumiso Ngada
Federal Council of African Indigenous Churches
South Africa

Rev. Dr Godffrey P. Ngumi
Department of Religious Studies
Kenyatta University
Kenya

Nana Kobina Nketsia V
Omanhen, Essikadu (British Sekondi)
Ghana

Prof. Augustine Nwoye
Kenyatta University
Department of Psychology
Kenya

Rev. Prof. Francis Oborji
Pontifical Urban University
Rome
Italy

Dr Mercy Oduyoye
Trinity Theological Seminary
Institute of Women in Religion and Culture
Ghana

Mr. Stephen Affear Ochalla Okang
Kwoto Cultural Center
C/o Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Sudan

Mr Burton Sankeralli
Trinidad
West Indies

Dr. Maria de Lourdes Siqueira
Salvador de Bahia
Brazil

Rev. Alemu Shetta
Ethiopian Evangelical Church
Mekane Yesus
Ethiopia

Mrs Daisy Stephens
U.K.

Al-Hahji Al-Hussein Zakaria
Interreligious Dialogue Committee
Tamale
Ghana
Archbishop Abune Zekarias
Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church
Addis Abeba
Ethiopia

Dr Thawra Yousif
College of Fine Arts
Basrah University
Basrah
Iraq

Observers

Rev. Fr. Rogelio B. Alarcon, OP
Dominican House of St. Augustine of Hippo
Ethiopia

Sr Edita Vera, Spss
Conference of the Major Religious Superiors (CMRS)
Ethiopia

Rev. Fr. Petros Berga
c/o Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat
Ethiopia

Local organisers

Mr Bedilu Assefa
Mr Zealbowossen Asfaw
Ethiopian Orthodox Church Development Inter-Church Aid Commission
Ethiopia

Mrs Leticia Padolina
Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat
Ethiopia

Staff

Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald
Monsgr Denis Isizoh
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
Vatican City

Rev. Dr Hans Ucko
Mrs Yvette Milosevic
Interreligious Relations and Dialogue
World Council of Churches
Switzerland

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