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Members of the working group

MEMBERS OF THE WORKING GROUP OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CONGRESS OF THE LEADERS OF WORLD AND TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS 

REPRESENTATIVES OF ISLAM (3):

  1. Usama Fakhri – Head of the Central Department for Mosques and the Holy Quran of the Ministry of Awqaf of Egypt, PhD.
  2. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq – Director General of the Institute of Islamic Studies of the International Islamic University Islamabad, PhD (Pakistan).
  3. Ensie Kanadzadeh – Head of the Department for Dialogue between Islam and Orthodox and Protestant Churches at the Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, PhD (Iran).

REPRESENTATIVES OF CHRISTIANITY (4):

  1. Ilya Kashitsyn – Secretary for Interreligious Relations of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Executive Secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia, Priest.
  2. Laurent Basaneze – Head of the Office of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue of the Holy See (Vatican).
  3. Rostislav Novgorodov – Bishop, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  4. Jo Bailey Wells – Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Bishop for Episcopal Ministry of the Anglican Communion (United Kingdom).

REPRESENTATIVE OF JUDAISM (1):

  1. Shlomo Kook – Representative of the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi.

REPRESENTATIVE OF BUDDHISM (1):

  1. Munjung – Director of the Missionary Studies Department of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (Republic of Korea).

REPRESENTATIVE OF HINDUISM (1):

  1. Rudraksha Sakrikar – Associate Professor at Somaiya Vidyavihar University, PhD (India).

REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (1):

  1. Aityan Gahraman – Advisor to the Baku International Multiculturalism Centre (Azerbaijan).

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN (3):

  1. Yerzhan Ashikbayev – Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  2. Rustam Ali – Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, Vice Minister of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  3. Gulsana Kozhabay – Chair of the Board of the International Center for Interfaith and Interreligious Dialogue.
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