Seminar | Palliative Care and Religion: Meanings and Interventions

The Institute of Health Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa organises the Seminar "Palliative Care and Religion: Meanings and Interventions", on the 4th June.
Framed within the scope of the Master's Degree in Palliative Care and Post-Graduation in Paediatric Palliative Care, the seminar aims to share the meaning of suffering / pain / life / death in the context of each religion and the strategies of religious intervention / accompaniment in this phase of the clinical trajectory of patients and their families.

Programme:

9:00 a.m. - Opening session with Ana Mineiro
09:15 a.m. - Statements by representatives of the different religions
11:00 a.m. - Coffee-break
11:15 a.m. - Discussion
12:00 a.m. - Final conclusions and closing session

Speakers:

• Comunidade Hindu Portuguesa
• Igreja Católica
• Aliança Evangélica Portuguesa
• Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias 
• União Portuguesa dos Adventistas do Sétimo Dia (a aguardar confirmação)
• Comunidade Islâmica de Lisboa
• Comunidade Bahá’i
• Patriarcado Ecuménico de Constantinopla (a aguardar confirmação)
• União Budista Portuguesa (a aguardar confirmação)
• Confederação Portuguesa das Igrejas Cristãs (COPIC)
• Comunidade Judaica
   

With limited places, access to the seminar is free of charge upon registration here.

For more information contact saude.sede@ucp.pt or call 21 721 41 47.