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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE

TWENTIETH YEAR - N. 203
ENGLISH
TUESDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2010

SUMMARY:

- Conclusions of Inter-religious Meeting in Tehran
- Vatican Television Acquires New Outside Broadcasting Unit
- Consistory: Courtesy Visits to New Cardinals
- Other Pontifical Acts

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CONCLUSIONS OF INTER-RELIGIOUS MEETING IN TEHRAN

VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Centre for Inter-Religious Dialogue of
the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation (Tehran, Iran) and the
Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue held their seventh
colloquium in Tehran from 9 to 11 November under the joint presidency of
Mohammad Baqer Khorramshad, president of the Islamic Culture and Relations
Organisation, and of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical
Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.

  At the end of the meeting the participants (seven in the delegation led by
Mohammad Baqer Khorramshad and six in the delegation led by Cardinal
Tauran), agreed upon the following:

  (1) Believers and religious communities, based on their faith in God, have
a specific role to play in society, on an equal footing with other citizens.

  (2) Religion has an inherent social dimension that the State has the
obligation to respect; therefore, also in the interest of society, it cannot
be confined to private sphere.

  (3) Believers are called to co-operate in the search for common good, on
the basis of a sound relation between faith and reason.

  (4) It is necessary for Christians and Muslims as well as all believers
and persons of good will, to co-operate in answering modern challenges,
promoting moral values, justice and peace and protecting the family,
environment and natural resources.

  (5) Faith, by its very nature, requires freedom. Therefore, religious
freedom, as a right inherent to human dignity, must always be respected by
individuals, social actors and the State. The cultural and historical
background of each society which is not in contradiction with human dignity
should be taken into consideration in applying this fundamental principle.

  (6) Education of the young generation should be based on the search for
truth, spiritual values and promotion of knowledge.

  The participants also emphasised the necessity of continuing on the path
of a genuine and fruitful dialogue. The next colloquium will take place in
Rome in 2012.
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VATICAN TELEVISION ACQUIRES NEW OUTSIDE BROADCASTING UNIT

VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - "New technologies at the service of the
communications of the Holy See" was the theme of a press conference held
this morning to present the new high-definition outside-broadcasting
equipment which the Vatican Television Centre (CTV) will now be using.

  Participating in today's conference, held in the Holy See Press Office,
were Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for
Social Communications and of the administrative board of the Vatican
Television Centre; Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of the Vatican
Television Centre; Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of
Columbus, and Gildas Pelliet, managing director of Sony Italia.

  Archbishop Celli highlighted the fact that the lorry containing the CTV
outside broadcasting unit is being inaugurated just a few days before the
Pontifical Council for Social Communications' newly renewed website
"Pope2you" comes online. The aim of the website, which has existed for some
time, "is to accompany the thousands of young people from every continent
who wish to follow the Pope closely, listening to his words and, in some
way, entering into dialogue with him. The site has thus far had some five
million hits", he said.

  "The second project we have begun working upon is the creation of a new
portal which will bring together, also using multimedia technology, the
various sources of news within the Vatican", said Archbishop Celli.

  In his remarks Fr. Lombardi e
xplained how the new equipment "certainly
represents the biggest investment made by the CTV in recent years, and
perhaps in its entire history, ... which began in the year 1983 by order of
John Paul II. This is, then, a good opportunity to recall the goals and
functions of this institution of social communications of the Holy See, and
the criteria it follows in its activities.

  "The mission of CTV", Fr. Lombardi added, "as its statute
says, is to
ensure the tele-visual recording of the Holy Father's activities and of
other important events that take place within the Vatican, ... and to create
an archive of all these images, both as a source of documentation and in
order to produce information services, documentaries, etc. All this, of
course, is to serve the mission of the Church, making the Holy Father's
activities and teaching better known".

  Doing this task well, he went on, "requires operational skill and a
quality product, in keeping with advances in tele-visual communications and,
more generally, in the modern use of video, for example on the internet. If
we failed to maintain an adequate level ... we would effectively hinder the
diffusion of the Pope's image, and hence of his message".

  For this reason CTV has greatly increased its live coverage over recent
years, and currently "makes an average of 200 live broadcasts every year",
said Fr. Lombardi. These include the great celebrations in St. Peter's
Square, the Angelus, general and special audiences, and concerts in the Paul
VI Hall or in the basilicas.

  The director of the Vatican Television Centre also pointed out that the
majority of quality documentaries are now produced in high-definition, and
that an increasing number of television channels are using this system. For
this reason, he explained, CTV's move to the system "was a necessary step
... we could not fail to make, for otherwise the image of the Pope would
gradually have disappeared from television screens over the coming years".

  The cost of the operation has been met from three sources: Sony, which
offered favourable terms of payment; a notable contribution from the Knights
of Columbus, and the resources which CTV has been earmarking for this
purpose over recent years, thanks to its annual budget surplus.

  For his part Carl Anderson explained how the new high-definition
outside-broadcasting unit "represents the most recent development in the
long history of the Catholic Church's work in mass communication". The
Knights of Columbus, he said, "is so happy to be able to support the great
communications work of the Vatican" in the hope of reaching "to
the farthest
corner of this city, Italy and the world".

  Gildas Pelliet explained how the new mobile unit, "a lorry 13.9 metres
long, ... is divided into four operational areas: audio cabin, equipment
room, primary and secondary director's cabin, and camera control. The
sixteen television cameras all have high-definition fibre optic
connections".
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CONSISTORY: COURTESY VISITS TO NEW CARDINALS

VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of
the Supreme Pontiff has announced that in St. Peter's Basilica at 10.30 a.m.
on Saturday 20 November, Pope Benedict XVI will hold an Ordinary Public
Consistory for the creation of twenty-four new cardinals.

  Also in St. Peter's Basilica, at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday 21 November,
Solemnity of Christ the King, the Holy Father will preside at a
concelebrated Mass with the new cardinals, during which he will give them
their ring of office.

  The programme for the courtesy visits to the new cardinals has also been
published; they will be held from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. on 20 November, in the
following locations:

PAUL VI HALL:

Atrium: Cardinals Jose Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Kazimierz Nycz, Raul Eduardo
Vela Chiriboga, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Antonios Naguib, Raymundo
Damasceno.

Hall: Cardinals Paolo Romeo, Domenico Bartolucci, Elio Sgreccia, Donald
William Wuerl, Reinhard Marx, Medardo Joseph Mazombw
e, Albert Malcolm
Ranjith Patabendige Don.

PALAZZO DELLA CANONICA - FABRIC OF ST. PETER'S:

Cardinal Walter Brandmuller.

APOSTOLIC PALACE:

Sala Regia: Cardinals Gianfranco Ravasi, Angelo Amato.

Hall of Blessings: Cardinals Robert Sarah, Francesco Monterisi, Fortunato
Baldelli, Kurt Koch, Velasio De Paolis, Paolo Sardi.

Sala Ducale: Cardinals Mauro Piacenza, Raymond Leo Burke.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Sosthene
Ayikuli Udjuwa, diocesan administrator of Mahagi-Nioka, Democratic Republic
of Congo, as bishop of the same diocese (area 18,490, population 1,705,486,
Catholics 975,688, priests 86, religious 121). The bishop-elect was born in
Faradje, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1963 and ordained a priest in 1993.
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