International Congress Renovabis

The 29th International Congress Renovabis will be held under the title „Inviolable and vulnerable. Human Dignity between universal Claim and social Conflict Lines in Europe“ from 9 to 11 September 2025 at the Catholic Academy in Berlin.

In an increasingly polarized society, human dignity is often instrumentalized and called into question. For Christians, however, it remains inalienable, as it is given to every human being in the image of God. Our aim is to promote a deeper understanding of human dignity and its protective mechanisms and to reflect on the real dilemmas that arise in various social and political contexts. This raises the question of where the greatest challenges to the protection of human dignity lie today and what social and political tensions are emerging in Europe. And what responsibility do politics, the church, religious communities and society as a whole have to preserve and strengthen it?

These and other questions will be addressed at the 29th International Congress Renovabis. Top-class speakers – among others Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Gabriel, Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Wils, Prof. Dr. Regina Polak, Sr. Justina Olha Golubets SAMI and Prof. Dr. Roman Globokar – invite you to lectures, panel discussions and in-depth dialogue groups.