Uwe Müller, former director of the Church-based Crisis Hotline Berlin, holds a degree in social pedagogy (Dipl. Soz.Päd.), and is a trainer in pastoral care and a supervisor. He founded the crisis hotline in East Berlin in 1988 during the GDR era and played a key role in establishing crisis hotline centers across the new federal states.
Imran Sagir is the founder and managing director of the Muslim Crisis Hotline MUTES in Berlin. Imam Imran Sagir is a trainer in pastoral care, and serves as an emergency and prison chaplain.
Uwe Müller and Imran Sagir
Workshop leaders
Maps of Vulnerability
Workshop
The map of our vulnerability is unique and individual. Eight billion people, eight billion maps. Nevertheless, there are similarities within groups of shared origin, culture, or religion. In intercultural and interreligious dialogue, we aim to explore — through the collaboration between the Christian Telefonseelsorge Berlin and the Muslim Crisis Hotline Berlin — where common ground exists and which differences need to be acknowledged.
The commonalities between the Bible and the Qur'an
Workshop
Christianity and Islam may appear to be worlds apart in their values and commandments — at least that’s what public perception often suggests. Politics, media, and efforts to preserve cultural identity in the context of migration frequently emphasize differences; commonalities are rarely mentioned. Yet in the Bible and the Qur'an, we find the telling of the same stories — and, more importantly, the same interpretations of those stories.