INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "THE CHRISTIAN CULTURE OF PEACE"

VATICAN CITY, FEB 29, 2000 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council for Culture has organized an international encounter dedicated to "The Christian Culture of Peace," from March 2 to 4 in Yaounde, Cameroon, according to a communique released today by the council. The communique recalls that the Year 2000 has been proclaimed by the United Nations as "The Year of The Culture of Peace."

Among the scheduled participants are African members of the pontifical council and delegates from the episcopal conferences and from the Association of Episcopal Conferences of the region of central Africa (Cameroon. Chad, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Central African Republic), who have been chosen from among the presidents of the episcopal conferences for education, culture and justice and peace. Cardinals Francis Arinze, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue and Christian Wiyghan Tumi, archbishop of Douala, Cameroon, and Archbishop Anselme Titianma Sanon of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, will also participate.

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