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COR UNUM ORGANIZES INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHARITY

VATICAN CITY, JAN 19, 2006 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" has
organized an international congress on charity, due to be held on January 23
and 24 in the Vatican's New Synod Hall. The theme of the event, taken from St.
Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, is : " ... But the greatest of these is
love."

The congress, which takes place immediately prior to the publication of
Benedict XVI's first Encyclical, "Deus Caritas est," has the aim of
"maintaining alive within the Church a sense of Christian commitment to
others," according to a communique released by "Cor Unum" to announce the
event.

The meeting will be inaugurated by Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, president of
"Cor Unum," and will be attended by around 200 participants including
cardinals, bishops, ambassadors, heads of international aid organizations, and
national delegates from Caritas and from non-governmental groups.

The calendar of events for the morning session of Monday, January 23, includes
contributions from James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank from 1995 to
2005, and from Denis Vienot, president of Caritas Internationalis. Under the
moderator, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland, they will analyze the
two great sectors of humanitarian aid: that of civil society and that of the
ecclesial world. At midday, Pope Benedict XVI will address the participants.
During the afternoon sitting, Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin
Navarro-Valls will present six testimonies on "experiences of charity."

The morning of Tuesday, January 24, will be dedicated to an interview with the
Italian film director Liliana Cavani, who has made films on the life of St.
Francis of Assisi. She will explain how the call of charity has affected her
representation of love on film. Cardinal Francis Eugene George O.M.I.,
archbishop of Chicago, will conclude the session with a theological lecture on
charity.

The congress will close on the afternoon of the same day with a Eucharistic
celebration at 5 p.m. in St. Peter's Basilica, presided by Cardinal Roger
Etchegaray, vice dean of the College of Cardinals and president emeritus of the
Pontifical Councils of Justice and Peace and "Cor Unum."
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