Information Service of
the Serbian Orthodox Church
February 28, 2002

INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE "CHURCH, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY"

International Round Table "CHURCH, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY" will be held at the Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade, on March 2 - 3. The organisers of this gathering are the Christian Cultural Centre and the Federal Secretariat for Religious Affairs.

The following people are supposed to take part in the work of the Round Table: His Grace Dr Irinej, Bishop of Backa; His Grace Dr Ignjatije, Bishop of Branicevo, Archpriest Dr Radovan Bigovic, Dean of the Theological Faculty in Belgrade; Archpriest Dr Zoran Krstic, Rector of the Seminary of Saint John the Chrysostom in Kragujevac; priest Dr Vladan Perisic; Dr Nenad Milosevic; Stanislav Hocevar, Archbishop of Belgrade; Dr Vojislav Milovanovic, Minister for Religious Affairs in Government of the Republic of Serbia: Dr Bogoljub Sijakovic, Federal Secretary for Religious Issues; Savo Markovic, Federal Minister of Justice; Kol Durham (USA); Christo Yanaras (Greece); Haralampous Papastatis (Greece); Gerhard Roberts (Germany); Silvio Ferrari (Italy); Dr Sima Avramovic; Milan Parivodic; Mirko Petrovic; Dr Kosta Cavoski.

PROGRAMME

10:00 - opening, introductory lectures

Prof. Dr Gerhard Roberts, Religious Freedoms in Europe

Bishop of Backa Dr Irinej, Relation of Church and State - Orthodox Approach

Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar, Relation of Church and State - Roman Catholic Approach

16:00 - State and Church - Legal Status of Church in Democratic Countries - European Law and Church

Prof. Dr. Sima Avramovic, Yugoslav Law on Religious Freedom in the Light of European Laws

Prof. Dr Bogoljub Sijakovic, State and Church

Prof. Dr Haralampous Papastatis, European Union and the Mount of Athos

Prof. Dr Vojislav Milovanovic, Republic Laws on the Relation of Church and State

Prof. Dr Nenad Milosevic (Belgrade), Canons on the Relation of Church and State

Mirko Petrovic, MA, What Concordat Is

11:00 - Church and Civil Society

Prof. Dr Christo Yanaras, Orthodoxy and Democracy

Prof. Dr Kol Durham (Utah - USA), New Trends in Religious Freedoms: Comparative Perspectives

Archpriest Dr Radovan Bigovic, Church and Democracy

Prof. Dr Silvio Ferrari, European Model for Church-State Relations

Archpriest Dr Vladan Perisic, Orthodoxy and Human Rights

Presentation of international magazine for philosophy and theology "Philoteus" (15 minutes)

16:00 - Church and Education, Media and Church

Bishop of Branicevo Dr Ignjatije, Church Education in State Schools

Milan Parivodic, MA, Starting Points and Methods of Enacting Laws on Religious Freedoms