SEMINAR ON "PROMOTING HUMAN DIGNITY IN OCEANIA"

VATICAN CITY, MAY 23, 2000 (VIS) - The Third Continental Seminar promoted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the theme "Promoting Human Dignity in Oceania" is currently underway in Melbourne, Australia, according to a communique published today by this council.

The 150 participants, including 10 archbishops and bishops, priests, religious and laity, come from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The communique states that "the themes that are being treated regard in a special way the major ethical questions implied in the processes of economic and financial globalization and the need for a new re-proposal of values of social justice and of solidarity."

Archbishop Francois Xavier Van Thuan and Bishop Diarmuid Martin, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, are also participating in the seminar. Work concludes tomorrow with a report on globalization by Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago, U.S.A.

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