Subject: VISnews 110331   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 62   
   ENGLISH   
   THURSDAY, 31 MARCH 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for April   
   - Message to Buddhists: Truth Is Necessary to Seek Peace   
   - Audiences   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR APRIL   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 31 MAR 2011 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention   
   for April is: "That through its compelling preaching of the Gospel, the   
   Church may give young people new reasons for life and hope".   
      
     His mission intention is: "That by proclamation of the Gospel and the   
   witness of their lives, missionaries may bring Christ to those who do not   
   yet know Him".   
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   MESSAGE TO BUDDHISTS: TRUTH IS NECESSARY TO SEEK PEACE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 31 MAR 2011 (VIS) - Made public today was the annual Message   
   to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh, issued by the Pontifical Council for   
   Inter-religious Dialogue. This year Vesakh, the most important Buddhist   
   festivity, is celebrated on 8 April in Japan, on 10 May in Korea, China,   
   Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore, and on 17 May in Thailand, Sri Lanka,   
   Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos.   
      
     The message, which is entitled "Seeking Truth in Freedom: Christians and   
   Buddhists live in Peace", Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and Archbishop Pier   
   Luigi Celata, respectively president and secretary of the pontifical   
   council, note that "in the pursuit of authentic peace, a commitment to seek   
   truth is a necessary condition. ... This human striving for truth offers a   
   fruitful opportunity for the followers of the different religions to   
   encounter one another in depth and to grow in appreciation of the gifts of   
   each".   
      
     The English-language text continues: "In today's world, marked by forms of   
   secularism and fundamentalism that are often inimical to true freedom and   
   spiritual values, inter-religious dialogue can be the alternative choice by   
   which we find the 'golden way' to live in peace and work together for the   
   good of all. ... Such dialogue is also a powerful stimulus to respect for   
   the fundamental human rights of freedom of conscience and freedom of   
   worship. Wherever religious freedom is effectively acknowledged, the dignity   
   of the human person is respected at its root; by the sincere search for what   
   is true and good, moral conscience and civil institutions are strengthened;   
   and justice and peace are firmly established".   
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   AUDIENCES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 31 MAR 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate   
   audiences:   
      
    - His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc,   
   Ukraine.   
      
    - Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil,   
   president of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), accompanied by   
   Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, first vice   
   president; Archbishop Andres Stanovnik O.F.M. Cap. of Corrientes, Argentina,   
   second vice president, Bishop Emilio Aranguren Echeverria of Holgun, Cuba,   
   president of the economic committee, and Bishop Jose Leopoldo Gonzalez   
   Gonzalez, auxiliary of Guadalajara, Mexico, secretary general.   
      
    - Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany,   
   president of the German Episcopal Conference.   
      
    - Bishop Mathew Arackal of Kanjirapally of the Syro-Malabars, India, on his   
   "ad limina" visit.   
      
    - Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai of the Syro-Malabars, India, on his   
   "ad limina" visit.   
      
    - Bishop George Alencherry of Thuckalay of the Syro-Malabars, India, on his   
   "ad limina" visit.   
      
    - Bishop Mathew Anikuzhikattil of Idukki, of the Syro-Malabars, India, on   
   his "ad limina" visit.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 31 MAR 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
    - Removed Bishop Jean-Claude Makaya Loemba from the pastoral care of the   
   diocese of Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo.   
      
    - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of   
   Papeete, Tahiti, presented by Archbishop Hubert Coppenrath, upon having   
   reached the age limit.   
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