Subject: VISnews 110713   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 130   
   ENGLISH   
   WEDNESDAY, 13 JULY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - An Initiative to Promote New Evangelisation   
      
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   AN INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE NEW EVANGELISATION   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 JUL 2011 (VIS) - Speaking on Vatican Radio, Archbishop Rino   
   Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New   
   Evangelisation, announced a new pastoral initiative being promoted by his   
   dicastery. The initiative has the name of "Metropolis Mission" and will   
   begin in Lent 2012.   
      
     Archbishop Fisichella explained that the scheme is the result of a meeting   
   which took place in the Vatican on 11 July with European cardinals and   
   archbishops of Barcelona, Budapest, Brussels, Dublin, Cologne, Lisbon,   
   Liverpool, Paris, Turin, Vienna and Warsaw.   
      
     The new initiative, which will initially involve only large European   
   cities, is divided into two phases: firstly, ordinary pastoral care   
   activities particularly in the field of formation, and secondly, during Lent   
   2012, "the simultaneous implementation of these activities" in the   
   aforementioned European cities.   
      
     "This is an initial response to the request made by the Pope during our   
   first plenary meeting, to overcome division and to show signs of unity",   
   said the archbishop.   
      
     During the 11 July meeting with European cardinals and archbishops,   
   emphasis was given "to the fact that the 'Metropolis Mission' should be a   
   concrete message sent by the great cities - the great dioceses - of Europe   
   to the Synod of Bishops of 2012, which has new evangelisation as its theme".   
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