CARDINAL CASSIDY TO TAKE PART IN MEETINGS IN ISRAEL AND GERMANY

VATICAN CITY, MAR 13, 1999 (VIS) - Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, president of the Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, will take part in the forthcoming Fifth International Congress of Educating Cities, to be held in Jerusalem March 14-17, according to a communique from the commission. He will speak on "Taking Heritage and History into the Future."

The president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity will also, as he has done in previous years, participate this year in the meeting of the "Wissenschaftlicher Beirat des Johann-Adam-Mohler-Instituts" for ecumenism on March 18-19 in Paderborn, Germany. He will also meet for discussions with representatives of the Evangelical-Lutheran Regional Churches on the need to intensify relations with the Catholic Church."

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