Tuesday, June 24, 2003

MESSAGE FOR WORLD TOURISM DAY, APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION ON EUROPE


VATICAN CITY, JUN 24, 2003 (VIS) - On Thursday June 26 at 11:30 p.m. in the Holy See Press Office Archbishop Stephen Fumio Hamao, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, will present the Holy Father's Message for the 24th World Tourism Day (September 27, 2003) on the theme: "Tourism: driving element in the fight against poverty, for the creation of employment and for social harmony." Archbishop Fumio will be accompanied by Archbishop Agostino Marchetto and Fr. Michael Blume, S.V.D., respectively secretary and subsecretary of the same dicastery.

On Saturday June 28 at 11:30 a.m. the presentation of the Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Ecclesia in Europe" will take place. Cardinals Jan P. Schotte and Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, respectively secretary general of the Synod of Bishops and Archbishop of Madrid, Spain, will participate in the press conference, as well as Archbishops Vincent Gerard Nichols of Birmingham, England and Jozef Miroslaw Zycinski of Lublin, Poland.

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