CARDINAL KASPER TO CLOSE WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

VATICAN CITY, JAN 17, 2002 (VIS) - At 6 p.m. on January 25, Cardinal Walter Kasper is due to preside at the celebration of Vespers in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls, thus bringing to a close the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" of 2002.

The cardinal, who is president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, will be accompanied by representatives from other Churches and ecclesial communities. "The diocesan community of Rome," reads a communique on the subject made public today, "is also invited to participate in order to invoke the Lord for the unity of all Christians."

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