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Name: Interfaith Camping 2025 - Nostra Aetate Edition
Start: 2025-02-08
End: 2025-02-09
Location: Focolare Community

Interfaith Camping 2025 - Nostra Aetate Edition

When: 8 – 9 February 2025
Where: Focolare Community
Organiser: Dunaj Instytut Dialogu
Initiative: Fraternity Circles

Interfaith Camping 2025 - Nostra Aetate Edition · 8 – 9 February 2025

About the gathering

The 2025 edition of Fraternity Circle was our inaugural camp with a special focus on Nostra Aetate - the groundbreaking Vatican II declaration on interreligious dialogue. Hosted at the Focolare Community, this residential program brought together young people and scholars from diverse religious backgrounds for two days of learning, sharing, and community building. Through seminars, workshops, and interactive sessions, participants explored themes of coexistence, faith in public life, and social responsibility. The event featured intensive Scriptural Reasoning sessions, group discussions, and reflective activities that deepened participants' understanding of their own and others' faith traditions.

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Around a shared table.

The 2025 camp. Shared reading, panel conversations, and time together at the Focolare community.

Engaging in scriptural reasoning session

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Programme

Day 1: Understanding and Reflecting (February 8, 2025)

10:00 - 11:30 | Registration and Breakfast
11:30 - 11:45 | Opening Ceremony
11:45 - 12:45 | Seminar: Historical Context and Evolution of Nostra Aetate - Dr. Mustafa Cenap Aydin (Director of the Istituto Tevere Dialogue Centre in Rome)
12:45 - 13:15 | Workshop: Match and Learn
13:15 - 13:45 | Coffee Break
13:45 - 14:15 | Scriptural Reasoning Group Session - Katarzyna Kucharska Louar
14:15 - 14:45 | Scriptural Reasoning Presenting Session
14:45 - 15:00 | Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:15 | Workshop: Empathy Circle - Magdalena Macińska (Polin Museum)
16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:15 | Seminar: Gulen Movement and Dialogue - Dr. Mustafa Cenap Aydin
17:15 - 17:30 | Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00 | Kahoot
18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner
19:00 - 21:00 | Free Time (Game Night)

Day 2: Building and Acting (February 9, 2025)

10:00 - 11:00 | Registration and Breakfast
11:00 - 11:15 | Opening Ceremony
11:15 - 12:30 | Panel: Lessons from Nostra Aetate and Fratelli Tutti - Dr. Mustafa Cenap Aydin & Prof. Dr. Hab. Zbigniew Kubacki SJ (Professor at AKW Collegium Bobolanum)
12:30 - 13:00 | Coffee Break
13:00 - 14:00 | Workshop: Jewish Culture - Magdalena Pulikowska (Krakow JCC)
14:00 - 14:30 | Scriptural Reasoning Group Session - Mateusz Łagosz (Krakow JCC)
14:30 - 15:00 | Scriptural Reasoning Presenting Session
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 | Workshop: Muslim Tradition - Katarzyna Kucharska Louar
16:30 - 17:00 | Collective Prayer Session
17:00 - 17:45 | Closing Ceremony
17:45 - 18:30 | Dinner

The speakers

Dr. Mustafa Cenap Aydin

Director of the Istituto Tevere Dialogue Centre in Rome

Co-founder and Director of Istituto Tevere (est. 2007), promoting dialogue and interreligious studies. Led seminars on 'Historical Context and Evolution of Nostra Aetate', 'Gulen Movement and Dialogue', and panel 'Lessons from Nostra Aetate and Fratelli Tutti'.

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Prof. Dr. Hab. Zbigniew Kubacki SJ

Professor at Catholic Academy in Warsaw - Collegium Bobolanum

Jesuit priest and professor of dogmatic theology and theology of religions. Former rector of Collegium Bobolanum. Co-panelist on 'Lessons from Nostra Aetate and Fratelli Tutti'.

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Katarzyna Kucharska Louar

Scriptural Reasoning Facilitator & Muslim Tradition Workshop Leader

Cultural studies expert and educator in Muslim religion. Led Scriptural Reasoning Group Sessions and Workshop on Muslim Tradition. Ambassador of interreligious dialogue between Muslim and Jewish communities.

Magdalena Macińska

Translator & Guide at POLIN Museum

Currently translating a book about Jules Isaac who influenced Nostra Aetate. Guide at POLIN Museum and practitioner of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Led Empathy Circle workshop on interfaith dialogue experiences.

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Magdalena Pulikowska

Educator & Hebrew Teacher at Krakow JCC

Educator leading workshops on Jewish culture and traditions, Hebrew teacher for adults. Led Workshop on Jewish Culture and initiatives for Jewish history commemoration in Kraśnik.

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Mateusz Łagosz

Educator & Guide at Krakow JCC

Interfaith dialogue educator who organized events bridging Muslim and Jewish communities. Participated in Euromed 2016 and POLIN Museum's 'Nur' and 'Razem czy obok' programs. Led Scriptural Reasoning sessions.

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Aizhana Ernazarova

Head of Event Department, Danaker Kyrgyz Women's Diaspora

Management engineering graduate organizing events addressing social issues for women from Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Presented workshop 'Building Bridges Through Stories: The Role of Dialogue in Strengthening Interfaith Relations'.

Furkan Guner

Political Science Master & NGO Worker, Ljubljana

Works at an NGO focused on intercultural and interfaith dialogue since 2020. Presented project 'Počimo Mehurčke - Let's Pop up the Bubbles' focusing on Muslim-Catholic family dialogue in Slovenia.

Ks. Paweł Batory

Art Historian & Catholic Priest, Rzeszów

Member of Polish Council of Christian and Jews and Rajsze Association. Graduated from International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in 2022. Works at Diocesan Museum in Rzeszów and University of Rzeszów.

Kacper Pietraszewski

Food Technologist & Focolare Movement Member

Active participant in Tents of Abraham meetings. Shared photos and experiences from travels to Central Asia, mosques and synagogues in Poland, demonstrating interfaith engagement through cultural exploration.