Keynote
Presentations
The 31st World Congress was privileged to have Professor Abdelfattah
Amor as a keynote speaker. Prof. Amor is the Special Rapporteur
on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations Commission
on Human Rights. His remarks offered an
assessment of the U.N.'s mandate on freedom of religion or
belief. He also addressed both a growing extremism affecting
all religions and preventive measures that the international
community is taking against intolerance and discrimination.
Dr.
Karel Blei gave the keynote lecture on "Religious
Freedom: Europe's Story for Today's World." A book
on this theme was presented to all Congress participants,
which chronicled the evolution of religious freedom in Europe
from the dawn of civilization to the modern era.
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