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Friday, December 13 -
Saturday, December 14, 2013
3:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST
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Recent attacks in Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, and elsewhere are part of a global surge in religious persecution effecting adherents of all faiths. Christians, however, find themselves increasingly targeted around the world.
In view of this global crisis, the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University will host a conference in Rome highlighting Christianity’s political, religious, and economic contributions to freedom even in the midst of severe hostility. The conference will present findings from a two-year study by dozens of scholars concerning Christianity’s contributions to freedom.
AGENDA
Friday, December 13, 2013
3:30 to 4:00 a.m. | Welcome Remarks and Address by Marcello Pera, Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians (Even if We Aren’t)
4:00 to 5:15 a.m. | The Terrible Facts: What is Happening to the World’s Christians?
5:30 to 6:45 a.m. | The First Thousand Years: Christianity’s Early Relationship to Freedom (as Persecuted and as Persecutor)
9:00 to 10:15 a.m. | Christian Views on Dignity, Slavery, Proselytism, and Democracy
10:30 to 11:45 a.m. | Religious Freedom in the Lion’s Den?
12:00 to 1:30 p.m. | Keynote Address by Professor Rémi Brague, God and Freedom: Biblical Roots of the Western Idea of Liberty.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
3:30 to 4:00 a.m. | Opening address by Ken Starr, President, Baylor University
4:00 to 5:15 a.m. | Christians Among the Most Vulnerable: Empowering Women and the Poor in Developing Societies
5:30 to 7:00 a.m. | Christianity and Freedom in Asia
9:00 to 10:15 a.m. | Would Europe or America Exist Without Christianity?
10:30 to 11:45 a.m. | A conversation on Christianity and Freedom in the Future of the West
12:00 to 1:30 p.m. | Keynote Address by Archbishop Louis Raphael Sako, Chaldean Patriarch of Iraq, Christianity Matters: What Middle Eastern Societies Will Lose If Christians Flee
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The conference is co-sponsored by Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion and is made possible by a generous grant from the Historical Society's Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program.
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