The Value of Human Life in Contemporary Societies
Program
Welcome GreetingGiorgio Amitrano
Director of the Italian Institute of Culture
MUSICHiroyuki Koinuma and Yumiko Kaneko
“Requiem for the convicted and executed guiltiness”
Introduction
Alberto
Quattrucci
Secretary General of Peoples and Religions, Community of
Sant’Egidio
Keynote SpeechMario Marazziti
Chairman of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights to the Italian House of Representatives
Movie on the
Philippines and the Abolition of Death Penalty
Guest of HonorManuel G. Co
Ministry of Justice, Philippines
Presentation
ofToshi Kazama
Photographer “Journey of Hope”, USA
MUSICGospel Family of Setanooka“Singing the Value of Life”
WitnessesIwao Hakamada
Innocent, world’s
longest-held
death row inmate – 46 years –
freed on March 27th, 2014
Hideko Hakamada
Hakamada case
Masaharu Harada
Founder of “Ocean” association of the victims’ relatives against Death
Penalty
Five more cases
of Innocent people Condemned to DeathTeigin case
Iizuka caseKikuchi caseFukuoka caseNabari case
Thoughts on the Value
of Life Offered by Religious People
Juan Masia
Catholic Church, Japan
Keii Amemori
Shinshu-Otani Buddhist Denomination, Japan
Hisashi Inoko
Oomoto Denomination, Japan
Hirotsugu Terasaki
Soka
Gakkai, Japan
ConclusionsHironori Miyamoto
Kanto Gakuin University, Japan
MUSICGospel Family of Setanooka : “Singing the Value
of Life”
Final GreetingsRyuji Furukawa
Seimeizan Shweitzer-ji
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