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   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTIETH YEAR - N. 203   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2010   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Conclusions of Inter-religious Meeting in Tehran   
   - Vatican Television Acquires New Outside Broadcasting Unit   
   - Consistory: Courtesy Visits to New Cardinals   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   CONCLUSIONS OF INTER-RELIGIOUS MEETING IN TEHRAN   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Centre for Inter-Religious Dialogue of   
   the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation (Tehran, Iran) and the   
   Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue held their seventh   
   colloquium in Tehran from 9 to 11 November under the joint presidency of   
   Mohammad Baqer Khorramshad, president of the Islamic Culture and Relations   
   Organisation, and of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical   
   Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.   
      
     At the end of the meeting the participants (seven in the delegation led by   
   Mohammad Baqer Khorramshad and six in the delegation led by Cardinal   
   Tauran), agreed upon the following:   
      
     (1) Believers and religious communities, based on their faith in God, have   
   a specific role to play in society, on an equal footing with other citizens.   
      
     (2) Religion has an inherent social dimension that the State has the   
   obligation to respect; therefore, also in the interest of society, it cannot   
   be confined to private sphere.   
      
     (3) Believers are called to co-operate in the search for common good, on   
   the basis of a sound relation between faith and reason.   
      
     (4) It is necessary for Christians and Muslims as well as all believers   
   and persons of good will, to co-operate in answering modern challenges,   
   promoting moral values, justice and peace and protecting the family,   
   environment and natural resources.   
      
     (5) Faith, by its very nature, requires freedom. Therefore, religious   
   freedom, as a right inherent to human dignity, must always be respected by   
   individuals, social actors and the State. The cultural and historical   
   background of each society which is not in contradiction with human dignity   
   should be taken into consideration in applying this fundamental principle.   
      
     (6) Education of the young generation should be based on the search for   
   truth, spiritual values and promotion of knowledge.   
      
     The participants also emphasised the necessity of continuing on the path   
   of a genuine and fruitful dialogue. The next colloquium will take place in   
   Rome in 2012.   
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   VATICAN TELEVISION ACQUIRES NEW OUTSIDE BROADCASTING UNIT   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - "New technologies at the service of the   
   communications of the Holy See" was the theme of a press conference held   
   this morning to present the new high-definition outside-broadcasting   
   equipment which the Vatican Television Centre (CTV) will now be using.   
      
     Participating in today's conference, held in the Holy See Press Office,   
   were Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for   
   Social Communications and of the administrative board of the Vatican   
   Television Centre; Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of the Vatican   
   Television Centre; Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of   
   Columbus, and Gildas Pelliet, managing director of Sony Italia.   
      
     Archbishop Celli highlighted the fact that the lorry containing the CTV   
   outside broadcasting unit is being inaugurated just a few days before the   
   Pontifical Council for Social Communications' newly renewed website   
   "Pope2you" comes online. The aim of the website, which has existed for some   
   time, "is to accompany the thousands of young people from every continent   
   who wish to follow the Pope closely, listening to his words and, in some   
   way, entering into dialogue with him. The site has thus far had some five   
   million hits", he said.   
      
     "The second project we have begun working upon is the creation of a new   
   portal which will bring together, also using multimedia technology, the   
   various sources of news within the Vatican", said Archbishop Celli.   
      
     In his remarks Fr. Lombardi e   
   xplained how the new equipment "certainly   
   represents the biggest investment made by the CTV in recent years, and   
   perhaps in its entire history, ... which began in the year 1983 by order of   
   John Paul II. This is, then, a good opportunity to recall the goals and   
   functions of this institution of social communications of the Holy See, and   
   the criteria it follows in its activities.   
      
     "The mission of CTV", Fr. Lombardi added, "as its statute says, is to   
   ensure the tele-visual recording of the Holy Father's activities and of   
   other important events that take place within the Vatican, ... and to create   
   an archive of all these images, both as a source of documentation and in   
   order to produce information services, documentaries, etc. All this, of   
   course, is to serve the mission of the Church, making the Holy Father's   
   activities and teaching better known".   
      
     Doing this task well, he went on, "requires operational skill and a   
   quality product, in keeping with advances in tele-visual communications and,   
   more generally, in the modern use of video, for example on the internet. If   
   we failed to maintain an adequate level ... we would effectively hinder the   
   diffusion of the Pope's image, and hence of his message".   
      
     For this reason CTV has greatly increased its live coverage over recent   
   years, and currently "makes an average of 200 live broadcasts every year",   
   said Fr. Lombardi. These include the great celebrations in St. Peter's   
   Square, the Angelus, general and special audiences, and concerts in the Paul   
   VI Hall or in the basilicas.   
      
     The director of the Vatican Television Centre also pointed out that the   
   majority of quality documentaries are now produced in high-definition, and   
   that an increasing number of television channels are using this system. For   
   this reason, he explained, CTV's move to the system "was a necessary step   
   ... we could not fail to make, for otherwise the image of the Pope would   
   gradually have disappeared from television screens over the coming years".   
      
     The cost of the operation has been met from three sources: Sony, which   
   offered favourable terms of payment; a notable contribution from the Knights   
   of Columbus, and the resources which CTV has been earmarking for this   
   purpose over recent years, thanks to its annual budget surplus.   
      
     For his part Carl Anderson explained how the new high-definition   
   outside-broadcasting unit "represents the most recent development in the   
   long history of the Catholic Church's work in mass communication". The   
   Knights of Columbus, he said, "is so happy to be able to support the great   
   communications work of the Vatican" in the hope of reaching "to the farthest   
   corner of this city, Italy and the world".   
      
     Gildas Pelliet explained how the new mobile unit, "a lorry 13.9 metres   
   long, ... is divided into four operational areas: audio cabin, equipment   
   room, primary and secondary director's cabin, and camera control. The   
   sixteen television cameras all have high-definition fibre optic   
   connections".   
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   CONSISTORY: COURTESY VISITS TO NEW CARDINALS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of   
   the Supreme Pontiff has announced that in St. Peter's Basilica at 10.30 a.m.   
   on Saturday 20 November, Pope Benedict XVI will hold an Ordinary Public   
   Consistory for the creation of twenty-four new cardinals.   
      
     Also in St. Peter's Basilica, at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday 21 November,   
   Solemnity of Christ the King, the Holy Father will preside at a   
   concelebrated Mass with the new cardinals, during which he will give them   
   their ring of office.   
      
     The programme for the courtesy visits to the new cardinals has also been   
   published; they will be held from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. on 20 November, in the   
   following locations:   
      
   PAUL VI HALL:   
      
   Atrium: Cardinals Jose Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Kazimierz Nycz, Raul Eduardo   
   Vela Chiriboga, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Antonios Naguib, Raymundo   
   Damasceno.   
      
   Hall: Cardinals Paolo Romeo, Domenico Bartolucci, Elio Sgreccia, Donald   
   William Wuerl, Reinhard Marx, Medardo Joseph Mazombw   
   e, Albert Malcolm   
   Ranjith Patabendige Don.   
      
   PALAZZO DELLA CANONICA - FABRIC OF ST. PETER'S:   
      
   Cardinal Walter Brandmuller.   
      
   APOSTOLIC PALACE:   
      
   Sala Regia: Cardinals Gianfranco Ravasi, Angelo Amato.   
      
   Hall of Blessings: Cardinals Robert Sarah, Francesco Monterisi, Fortunato   
   Baldelli, Kurt Koch, Velasio De Paolis, Paolo Sardi.   
      
   Sala Ducale: Cardinals Mauro Piacenza, Raymond Leo Burke.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 16 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Sosthene   
   Ayikuli Udjuwa, diocesan administrator of Mahagi-Nioka, Democratic Republic   
   of Congo, as bishop of the same diocese (area 18,490, population 1,705,486,   
   Catholics 975,688, priests 86, religious 121). The bishop-elect was born in   
   Faradje, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1963 and ordained a priest in 1993.   
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